Word Meanings - SPENDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra personal expenses; pocket money.

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• EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
  Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
• EXTRA-OCULAR
  Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• EXTRAVENATE
  Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• EXTRADITABLE
  1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice. 2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• EXTRADOTAL
  Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.
• EXTRATERRITORIALITY
  The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. ,
• EXTRAVASATE
  To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• EXTRAUGHT
  Extracted; descended. Knowing whence thou art extraught Shak.
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• EXTRAPAROCHIAL
  Beyond the limits of a parish. -- Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.
• EXTRAORDINARINESS
  The quality of being extraordinary. Gov. of the Tongue.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• AMBIDEXTRAL
  Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• DISPEND
  To spend; to lay out; to expend. Spenser. Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller. (more info) dispense; dis- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, Spend, and cf.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.