expend

CEFRB2

/ɪkˈspɛnd/

verb

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According to the budget, she could expend no more on supplies.
If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.

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Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.
To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.

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If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Is...
So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.
1962 May, Max Euwe, “Game of the Month”, in Chess Review
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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Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.