verb · informal
spend
/spend/SPEND
Band 5-6speakingtask2
to use money or time for a particular purpose
Examples
“I usually spend about $30 a week on food.”
“She spent two hours revising before the test.”
“We try not to spend too much when we travel.”
Band 8 sentence
“I tend to spend a disproportionate amount of my budget on eating out when I'm studying abroad, which I'm trying to curb.”
Collocations
- spend money on
- spend time doing sth
- spend freely
Word family
spending nounspent verb (past)spender noun
Common mistakes
spend for→spend on
Say it for a higher band
5use→6expend→7+spend
Synonyms
expend
Easily confused
save
“I try to save a bit of my salary every month.”
waste
“He wasted all his pocket money on video games.”
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