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Paying vs Spending - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between paying and spending

is that paying is present participle of lang=en while spending is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between paying and spending

is that paying is payment while spending is an amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.

paying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • payment
  • * Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy
    • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

    spending

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent