Usage examples (5)

• Verb (used with object) : She expended energy, time, and care on her work
• But Triffitt knew himself to be the expender of the Markledew money, and the knowledge made him unduly cautious.
• A great expender of energy by reason of the exigencies of flight, it is essentially, chilly creature that it is, better-adapted than any other to the retention of heat.
• "It is the present duty of the economist," says Mr. Devine, "to accompany the wealth expender to the very threshold of the home, that he may point out, with untiring...