Scrabble?! SPEND

Definitions of SPEND in various dictionaries:

verb - pass time in a specific way

verb - pay out

verb - spend completely

To use up or put out; expend: spent an hour each day exercising.

To pay out (money).

To wear out; exhaust: The storm finally spent itself.

To pass (time) in a specified manner or place: spent their vacation in Paris.

To throw away; squander: spent all their creative resources on futile projects.

To give up (one’s time or efforts, for example) to a cause; sacrifice.

To pay out or expend money.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to pay or give out money or an equivalent in return for something”: spent five dollars for a movie ticket; disbursing funds from the corporate account; expending energy on a project.

verb - to pay out