Collocations for "spent"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "spent" in context.
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spend
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- spend your [money, savings]
- went and spent it (all) on [drugs, booze]
- spend too much on a [TV, car, computer]
- spend (over) [$50]
- spend in excess (of)
- spending [excessively, wildly, frugally]
- spend on [education, healthcare, social security]
- spend or [save, invest]
- spend time and money on
- spend (quality) time together
- spent [an hour, the afternoon] [exercising]
- spend (most) of my time [exercising]
- if you spent more time [studying, working] and less (time) [watching, talking]
- should spend more time [exercising, cleaning, working]
- spent his [rage, fury, strength]
- sexually explicit: spent his seed
- the [total, gross, net, average] spend
- a [total] spend of [$40]
- the [total] spend per [family, person, head, household]
- an [aggregate, overall] spend of [$500]
- the average spend is [$20]
- a [heavy, major, significant, light] spend
'spent' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Easter
- Spain
- academic
- advertisement
- advertising
- afternoon
- all
- allowance
- altogether
- barn
- billion
- chunk
- confine
- cottage
- countless
- credit
- darn
- day
- decade
- eight
- enhancement
- entire
- fag
- fifteen
- five
- forty
- graft
- grand
- gym
- happy
- hoover
- hotel
- hour
- jail
- kitchen
- labor
- lake
- life
- lodge
- much
- nick
- night
- nine
- nurse
- one
- part
- penny
- perfect
- relative
- restless