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Definition of Expending

Expending
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. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. --Shak.

Meaning of Expending from wikipedia

- The Expendables may refer to: The Expendables (1962 film), a made-for-TV film starring Mike Connors The Expendables (1989 film), by Cirio H. Santiago The...
- the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost. In this case, money is the input that...
- that of water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. The blobfish has a relative lack of muscle, but this...
- making the lead ship a combination of template and prototype, rather than expending resources on a prototype that will never see actual use. Ship classes...
- in close-quarters combat once the weapon's single projectile had been expended. The term buffaloing is do****ented as being used in the Wild West originally...
- e. goods that are scarce; in other words, producing the good requires expending effort or resources. Economic goods contrast with free goods such as air...
- frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 and expended as a target in August 2004. She was one of only two Batch 2s (the other...
- Skeletal muscles begin to shake in small movements, creating warmth by expending energy. Shivering can also be a response to fever, as a person may feel...
- with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort, which results in ac****ulating physiological costs...
- Stratofortress at high altitudes before igniting its rocket engine; after expending its rocket fuel, the pilot would glide the X-24 to an unpowered landing...