'Expending' definitions:
Definition of 'expending'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of spending money for goods or services [syn: expending, expenditure]
Definition of 'Expending'
From: GCIDE
- Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. [1913 Webster]
- If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]