Pay vs Spend - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between pay and spend

is that pay is to suffer consequences while spend is to waste or wear away; to be consumed.

As verbs the difference between pay and spend

is that pay is to give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services while spend is to pay out (money).

As nouns the difference between pay and spend

is that pay is money given in return for work; salary or wages while spend is amount spent (during a period), expenditure.

As an adjective pay

is operable or accessible on deposit of coins.

pay

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Verb

To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

* , chapter=17

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about

(ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}

To be profitable for.

To give (something else than money).

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

not paying me a welcome

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

To be profitable or worth the effort.

To discharge an obligation or debt.

To suffer consequences.

Derived terms

* hell to pay * pay as you earn * pay-as-you-go * pay attention * pay back * pay down * payee * payer * pay for * pay for it * pay forward * pay in * payment * pay off * pay one's dues * pay one's respects * pay out * pay-per-view * pay respect * pay the bills * pay the freight * pay the penalty * pay the piper * pay through the nose * pay up * rob Peter to pay Paul * take or pay * you get what you pay for

Hypernyms

* (to give money) compensate

Hyponyms

* (to give money) bribe, disburse, fund, pay off, pay out, pay up, reimburse

Noun

(en noun)

Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}

Derived terms

* combat pay * danger pay

Adjective

(-)

Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.

Pertaining to or requiring payment.

Etymology 2

(etyl) peier, from (etyl) (lena) .

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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spend

English

Verb

To pay out (money).

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

To bestow; to employ; often with on'' or ''upon .

* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)

Iam never loath / To spend my judgment.

(label) To squander.

To exhaust, to wear out.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

their bodies spent with long labour and thirst

To consume, to use up (time).

* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

*, chapter=13

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}

To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

(label) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.

To be diffused; to spread.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

(label) To break ground; to continue working.

Derived terms

* spending money * spendthrift * spent force

Noun

(en noun)

Amount spent (during a period), expenditure

I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.

(pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.

* {{quote-news

, date = 2011-02-01 , first = Ami , last = Sedghi , title = Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/01/january-transfer-spend-record-high-torres , passage = Total January spends by year }}

* {{quote-web

, year = 2011 , title = Council spending over £500 , site = Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council , url = http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/business_and_employment/tenders_and_contracts/council_spending_over_£500.aspx , accessdate = 2012-01-26 , passage = The spends have been made by our strategic partners ... }}

Discharged semen

Vaginal discharge

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