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 spending ['spɛndɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 经费, 开销

[经] 开支, 开销, 经费




    spending
    [ noun ]
    1. the act of spending or disbursing money

      2. <noun.act>
    2. money paid out; an amount spent

      3. <noun.possession>


    Spend \Spend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spent}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Spending}.] [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or
    dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See {Pendant},
    and cf. {Dispend}, {Expend}, {Spence}, {Spencer}.]
    1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to
    spend money for clothing.

    Spend thou that in the town. --Shak.

    Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
    bread? --Isa. lv. 2.

    2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

    I . . . am never loath
    To spend my judgment. --Herbert.

    3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
    spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

    4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a
    day idly; to spend winter abroad.

    We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
    9.

    5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away;
    as, the violence of the waves was spent.

    Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
    --Knolles.


    Spending \Spend"ing\, n.
    The act of expending; expenditure.

    {Spending money}, money set apart for extra (not necessary)
    personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]

    1. How well would an economy already struggling with tight credit conditions and weak consumer spending bear the added burden of a tax increase?
    2. Officials said they also are planning deeper than expected cuts in government spending next year, in an effort to curtail the expected inflationary effects of higher oil prices.
    3. This budget achieves that goal and complies with the spending limits set by the economic summit.
    4. More spending on health and education would be likely.
    5. American businesses, worried about a recession, plan a barely perceptible 0.4 percent increase in spending to modernize in 1991, the most pessimistic outlook for business investment in five years.
    6. The government also reported that construction spending inched up 0.02 percentage point in July and the Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose a modest 0.2 percentage point that month.
    7. Mr Phippen said this was projected to rise to over 30 per cent in the current year and to about 45 per cent in 1994-95. Capital spending in the current year was forecast at some Pounds 24m with another 716 beds due to open.
    8. The new transport and construction ministers meet often to try to co-ordinate policy in areas like urban development and infrastructure spending, where their departments were sometimes at loggerheads. This co-operation is the exception at the moment.
    9. The Reagan administration gradually was able at least to stop new spending initiatives.
    10. Terrified by a new wave of political violence, the family of an abducted human rights activist fled this country Saturday after spending nearly six weeks holed up in a room at the Red Cross.
    11. But former Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger made clear he didn't think the concept was funny when it applied to Pentagon spending.
    12. "Basically, like a lot of other people, we were a little freer spending with credit cards than we should have been." Now, saving for retirement and for the four children's educations is a higher priority.
    13. In the first quarter, however, such spending rose 25%, to 11.74 billion yuan ($3.16 billion), from the year-earlier period.
    14. Like the House, the Senate committee declined to kill any programs, relying instead on across-the-board spending restraint to reach deficit-reduction targets without making those tough choices in an election year.
    15. Bush, who is promising a balanced budget for 1993 while vowing to cut taxes and increase some spending along the way, has stayed vague enough to sound almost plausible.
    16. The Treasury said the latest figures were encouraging. The December figure fits in with indications from retailers that shop spending picked up last month.
    17. After spending a lifetime challenging the art world to reconsider all it has ever taken for granted, John Cage has written an opera.
    18. The cries are anguished now because the spending cuts that were supposed to be part of Reaganomics from the beginning are finally starting to take hold.
    19. WITH CHRISTMAS just around the corner, marketers are fretting about how big a toll the stock market crash will take on consumer spending.
    20. A mother raccoon and her two babies who fell through a library ceiling were back in their attic nest Wednesday after spending a day browsing through the reference section.
    21. If the projected 1990 deficit on Oct. 16 is higher than $110 billion, a sequester under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings would automatically reduce next year's spending levels to the extent necessary to reduce the estimated deficit to $100 billion.
    22. Inventory rebuilding, capital spending, and stable consumer demand will continue to keep the economy growing, says Michael Sherman, chief investment strategist at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
    23. The Gramm-Rudman Act forced government to at least attempt scaling back, and the phasing out of tax deductions on installment debt has made individuals more conscious of saving rather than spending.
    24. In gloomy remarks that appeared directed partly at congressional budget negotiators, Darman spoke of "across-the-board spending reductions of a totally unprecedented size" if the $100 billion gap can't be bridged by a budget compromise.
    25. On defense, aides suggest that the vice president would increase spending only enough to match inflation.
    26. The FAA is spending millions of dollars on bomb detection.
    27. The key documents involved generally were Defense Department five-year spending plans.
    28. By contrast, spending on cars, medicine and utility bills rose. Two signs that Japan might be near the trough of its downturn emerged yesterday with a slowdown in the pace of corporate profits decline and a slight recovery in money supply.
    29. To achieve the increased spending will require the administration to make cuts in other programs of $38 billion.
    30. Borge, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is still revered in his native land, was reported to be spending a quiet birthday at his vacation home in Christiansted, St. Croix, in the former Danish West Indies.
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