1. Verb
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
2. Verb
To be laid out, used, or consumed.
3. Verb
To pay out or disburse money.
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