1 to use time doing something or being somewhere: --
You can spend the night here if you like.
We spent the weekend in Buenos Aires.
I've spent years building up my collection.
2 to use energy, effort, force, etc., especially until there is no more left: --
The hurricane will probably have spent most of its force (= most of its force will have gone) by the time it reaches the northern parts of the country.
They continued firing until all their ammunition was spent (= there was none of it left).
For the past month he's been spending all his energy trying to find a job.
Most people suggested a combination of spending some resources in retirement and saving some for unexpected events later on.
Some other helpers noted that the older people they assisted wanted them to spend more time with them than they felt able to give.
One way of determining burden is by recording how much time is spent attending to the patient.
Popular attitudes to spending priorities do not in general demand a radical redirection in the major areas of state spending.
Newly elected officials do not want to spend the capital they have 'earned' in the election by staying the course.
But not being a hoarder, he spent his cash as fast as he earned it.
For one thing, it is misleading to measure leisure simply as time spent outside the labor market.
Those men and women aged 25-44 and living-apart-together had both spent a full year longer in secondary education than had those in co-residential relationships.