expend

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“I weigh; I pay out”). Doublet of spend.

verb

  1. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
  2. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse
    To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks. 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 416

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