英 [ˈspendɪŋ] 美 [ˈspendɪŋ]
n. （尤指政府或组织的）支出，开销，花费
v. 用，花（钱）；花（时间），度过；花费，消耗，用尽（精力等）（spend的现在分词形式）；花费，消耗，用尽（精力等）（spend 的现在分词形式）
spend /spɛnd/ CET4 TEM4 [ spending spent spends ]
及物动词 When you spend money, you pay money for things that you want or need. 花 (钱)
By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money.
到那个假期结束时我已经花光了我所有的钱。
Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products.
商人们花巨额资金为他们的产品做广告。
及物动词 If you spend time or energy doing something, you use your time or effort doing it. 花 (时间、精力)
Engineers spend much time and energy developing brilliant solutions.
工程师们花大量时间和精力开发出色的解决方案。
及物动词 If you spend a period of time in a place, you stay there for a period of time. 度过 (一段时间)
We spent the night in a hotel.
我们在一家宾馆过了夜。
the act of spending or disbursing money
同义词： disbursement / disbursal / outlay
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But the residents will reduce consumer spending to increase investment in capital markets.
但是居民会减少消费支出增加对资本市场的投入。
依照发布的数字，侨民工程的花销(Spending)是 693 亿 元，而从下文的引文能够看到，在 93 年的决算当中，库区息灭与侨民铺排一共加起来是 400 亿 元。
...K,年终奖1-1.5W，此项收入打卡，卡不在我手上，在LP那里，还要养小孩，小孩读书花销很大，还要存教育基金，自己的开销(Spending)和欠下的债务则由自己在外面做单子来维持，整个2010年生意赚了近20W,可惜都流入了庄家的口袋，还倒欠8,9W的债务，因为去年2009年...
假使你原订退出DC的时分已到，但你的预算消费额(Spending)没都花完，我们常为失去的机会或成就而嗟叹，但往往忘了为现在所拥有的感恩。你应感应红运了。
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花费；开销
George was spending very freely.
乔治花钱大手大脚。
Spending has increased year on year.
与去年同期比较，开销增加了。
We need to rein back public spending.
我们需要严格控制公共开销。
The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for independent spending by businesses and labor unions in political campaigns.
VOA : special.2010.01.22
But more that anything else I think it was that they were interllectuals, and that they were spending time with undergraduates.
但我觉得，更重要的是,他们是知识分子，而且他们和本科生一起生活。
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And so I would never condemn people for spending time and going and looking at that and developing themselves.
所以我从不会谴责人们将时间花在上面浏览，
查阅并充实自己。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 关于网络世界
The party opposes his plan to cut taxes for middle class Americans and use of government spending to increase economic activity.
VOA : special.2009.05.02
Others say the activists are independent thinkers who will oppose any politician they see as supporting big government and big spending.
VOA : special.2010.03.06
The expectation of increased spending on roads and railways has helped to lift raw-material prices.
ECONOMIST: For those looking gamely for bright spots, China flickers
The government must get its finances in order and, in particular, rein in spending.
For 2002, Weiner estimates a 20% drop in capital spending for the semiconductor industry.