to use or spend time, effort, or money: You expend so much effort for so little return. expend something on something Governments expend a lot of resources on war. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Using and misusing. adoption. avail yourself of something phrasal verb. be/go heavy on something idiom. consume. exhaust. More @Wikipedia
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