dispend

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verb

To spend or expend.

OriginOld French despendre ← Latin dispendere →
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Meanings

verbdispend (third-person singular simple present dispends, present participle dispending, simple past and past participle dispended or dispent)

present singular third person dispends · participle present dispending · participle past dispended · past dispended · participle past dispent · past dispent

  1. obsoleteTo spend or expend.

    Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2
  2. obsoleteTo waste or squander.
  3. obsoleteTo distribute or dispense.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
distribute

Origin

  1. Latindispendere
  2. Old Frenchdespendre
  3. Englishdispend

From Old French despendre ( > French dépendre), from Latin dispendere.

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APA

dispend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispend

MLA

“dispend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispend. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dispend,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispend.

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