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spending

noun as in disbursement

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noun as in enjoyment

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noun as in outlay

noun as in shopping

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He has been widely criticised for spending much of the afternoon having lunch with a journalist rather than focusing on Valencia's response to the rapidly developing crisis.

From BBC

Cryptocurrency advocates are spending millions in political donations to obtain huge gaps in crypto regulations.

They document the efforts by Bankman-Fried and his fellow FTX insiders to turn themselves into political and financial big shots by spending billions of dollars entrusted to them by customers — the goal being “to enhance their own personal reputations at the expense of creditors,” as the current management puts it.

The true purpose of this spending had been “to prop up Bankman-Fried’s standing in the worlds of politics and traditional finance,” the receivers assert.

The Home Office "cut corners" and made "a series of poor decisions", whilst under pressure to stop migrants being housed in hotels, when it paid £15m for an asbestos-contaminated derelict prison, the government's spending watchdog has said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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