Spender

Definition

spend /spend/ v ( pt, pp spent /spent/) ၁။ ~ sth (on sth) (ေငြ) သံုးသည္။ Advertisements aim to persuade people to spend. ❍ She's spent all her money. ❍ He spends too much (money) on clothes. ၂။ ~ sth (on sth/ (in) doing sth) (က) (အခ်ိန္) ကုန္လြန္သည္၊ သံုးသည္၊ ျဖဳန္းသည္။ spend a lot of time and efforft on a project/in explaining a plan ❍ spend one's entire life caring for other people. (ခ) သံုးသည္ (သို႔) ကုန္သည္၊ စဲသည္။ Their energy was completely spent. ❍ They went on firing until they had spent all their ammunition. ❍ The storm quickly spent itself (ie lost all its force and ended). See also SPENT. ၃။ (အခ်ိန္) ကုန္သည္၊ သံုးသည္၊ ျဖဳန္းသည္။ spend a weekend in Paris ❍ She spent her childhood on the east coast. ကေလးဘဝက သူအေရွ႕ပိုင္းကမ္းေျခ ေဒသတြင္ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့သည္။ ❍ How do you spend your spare time? ❏ spender n လက္ဖြာသူ။ လက္ႀကီးသူ။ a big/an extravagant spender. ❏ spending n [U] ေငြေၾကးသံုးစြဲမႈ။ သံုးစြဲေငြ။ The government has reduced public/defence/welfare spending. ❍ spending cuts ❍ Consumer spending rose this year by £70 million. ❏ spending money n [U] အေသးသံုး။ ေဈးဖိုး။ မုန္႔ဖိုး။ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဖိုး။ How much spending money did you take with you on holiday? ❏ spend the night with sb/together [ IDM ] ( euph ) တစ္ညတာ အခ်စ္စခန္းဖြင့္သည္။ ❏ spend a penny [ IDM ] ( Brit infml euph ) သန္႔စင္ခန္း ဝင္သည္။ I'm just going to spend a penny.

Examples

1. How much money did you spend?
2. [spend something on something] : We’re spending a lot more on food than we used to.
3. [spend something doing something] : They spent about £600 just rebuilding the front porch.
4. We spent the day at the beach.
5. [spend time on something] : How much time do you spend on homework?
6. [spend something with someone] : I’m going to spend Christmas with my family.
7. [spend something doing something (with someone)] : I’ll need to spend an hour rehearsing with the cast.
8. Considerable energy is spent on making the costumes look perfect.