Spends money or resources, especially in a wasteful or extravagant manner.
From Latin 'dispendere': 'dis-' (apart) + 'pendere' (to weigh, pay). The modern third-person singular form of an archaic verb.
The root 'pendere' literally means 'to weigh,' which is why it appears in 'pending' and 'appendix'—Romans thought of payment as literally weighing out precious metals on scales.
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