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• n  the act of spending or disbursing money
• n  money paid out; an amount spent
• v  pass time in a specific way
  how are you spending your summer vacation?
• v  pay out
• v  spend completely

• The Supreme Court, in a case that arose from a film attacking Hillary Clinton, wrestled on Wednesday with whether to overturn prohibitions on political campaign spending by .
• According to data released this week tracking Americans' out-of-pocket spending on health care, each year we fork out some $33.
• But at least he restrained domestic spending at the same time.

• disbursement
• disbursal
• outlay
• outgo
• expenditure
• spend
• pass
• expend
• drop

• income

News & Articles

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• Deloitte Consumer Spending Index Moves Upward in May
  NEW YORK, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index (Index) rose in May, buoyed by improving real home prices, initial unemployment claims and real wages. The Index tracks consumer ...
  June 17, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Mansion spending records indicate improper billing by Virginia governor and family
  RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, R, and his wife, Maureen, have used taxpayer money for a range of small personal items they should have paid for themselves under state policy, according to spending records.        
  June 17, 2013 - Daily Press
• Smart Spending: Beach reading stock-up tips
  Smart Spending: Beach reading stock-up tips Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:49 am, Thursday, June 13, 2013 [...] with the expense that it takes to pay for the vacation itself, no one wants to spend a lot on beachy entertainment. [...] Nook tablets offer the entire Google ...
  June 16, 2013 - seattlepi.com

Quotes

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• President Bush in Xinhua
  We expect they will use it to boost consumer spending and that will spur job creation as well,Bush said in Friday's statement.
• Nancy Pelosi in USA Today
  The burden is on the president to justify any additional resources for a mission,said Pelosi, D-Calif. "Congress is ready to use its constitutional authority of oversight to question what is the justification for this spending, what are...