dispend
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dispend
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From Old French despendre ( > French dépendre), from Latin dispendere.
verb dispends · dispending · dispended · dispent
- To spend or expend. Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.
- To waste or squander.
- To distribute or dispense.