[f. SPEND v.1] The action of spending money. Only in phrase on or upon the spend.
a. 1688. Bunyan, Israel’s Hope Encouraged, Wks. 1855, I. 618. What if I cannot but live upon the spend all my days, yet, if my friend will always supply my need, is it not well for me?
c. 1800. J. Newton, in R. Cecil, Life (1853), 169. A man always in society, is one always on the spend.
1904. Sat. Rev., 17 Dec., 751. The suggestion that the Government is ‘on the spend.’
