Definition of spend | Bee Dictionary of English

Emergency spending brought on by the financial crisis is pushing red ink to record levels.
On weekends, people over 75 spend 112 hours reading, while those from 15 to 19 spend seven minutes.
Even a cheapskate has to spend money sometimes.

DEARBORN: Severstal wants to spend money on one-time city projects, not general fund items
DEARBORN — Just how should the city spend $8.345 million from Severstal North America?
June 21, 2013 - Dearborn Press & Guide
Cipriano to spend life in prison
Tucker Cipriano will spend the rest of his life in prison for the baseball bat killing of his father after pleading no contest Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court.
June 20, 2013 - Farmington Observer
Russia Will Spend 14 Billion Rubles to Shut Polluting Paper Mill
Russia will spend about 14 billion rubles ($430 million) to close the Baikal pulp and paper mill in southern Siberia after the United Nations called for its shutdown on concern it pollutes water.
June 19, 2013 - Bloomberg

Paris Hilton in CNN International
I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials,Hilton said in the Saturday statement. "I would hope going...
Barack Obama in Canada Free Press
The report of Obama saying this: "With all due deference to the separation of powers, the court last week reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without...
Joachim Loew in Toronto Sun
They're just such good footballers, and that showed up our current limitations today,said Loew. "They stifled us in certain areas, and we were never able to break free. Their passing game is so good, you spend practically all your time...