Spend vs Assets - What's the difference?
spend | assets |
To pay out (money).
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, title= To bestow; to employ; often with on'' or ''upon .
* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
(label) To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To consume, to use up (time).
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, title= To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
(label) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
To be diffused; to spread.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) To break ground; to continue working.
Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
(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 ...
}}
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English plurals
(finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
(legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
As nouns the difference between spend and assets
is that spend is amount spent (during a period), expenditure while assets is .As a verb spend
is to pay out (money).spend
English
Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
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.}}
- Iam never loath / To spend my judgment.
- their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
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
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.}}
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.}}
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
Derived terms
* spending money * spendthrift * spent forceNoun
(en noun)- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsassets
English
Noun
(head)- His assets are much greater than his liabilities.