EXPENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expending mean? 

• EXPENDING (noun)
  The noun EXPENDING has 1 sense:

1. the act of spending money for goods or services

  Familiarity information: EXPENDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPENDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of spending money for goods or services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

expending; expenditure

Hypernyms ("expending" is a kind of...):

disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending (the act of spending or disbursing money)

Derivation:

expend (pay out)

 Context examples 

The type of award an agency makes to support a program and within which it incorporates the terms and conditions for expending the funds and performing the work.

(Funding Mechanism, NCI Thesaurus)

That means expending minimal amounts of energy through a reduced metabolic rate, dramatic regulation of body temperature, and navigating the world in slow motion.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

A coded value specifying the unique identifier for the type of award an agency makes to support a program and within which it incorporates the terms and conditions for expending the funds and performing the work.

(Funding Mechanism Code, NCI Thesaurus)