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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 spending
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spend v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.]
 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
    Spend thou that in the town.   --Shak.
    Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?   --Isa. lv. 2.
 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
 I . . . am never loath
 To spend my judgment.   --Herbert.
 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
 4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
    We spend our years as a tale that is told.   --Ps. xc. 9.
 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
    Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.   --Knolles.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spend·ing, n. The act of expending; expenditure.
 Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 spending
      n : the act of spending or disbursing money [syn: disbursement,
           disbursal, outlay]