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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
expend . - adjective
Spent ;used up ;exhausted .
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Examples
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Note that labor-power expended is how we get labor.
skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 4 skzbrust 2010
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Note that labor-power expended is how we get labor.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010
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A subset of this rhetorical description of time expended is an account of the origins of the interest leading to the invention or discovery.
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With fuel costing above two dollars a gallon perhaps eight or nine gallons of Magna Sin expended while searching for your first campground of the trip would pay for this book and it has maps, and which campgrounds do not allow tent camping (some don't).
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To the two previous commenters: Go travel one day, and you’ll find out why (and where) quality of life/cost expended is notably higher in Europe.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » US vs. Europe: Standard of Living 2010
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Compared with such a gain to the consuming classes, what would it matter that the producers were "expended" every four or five years, thereby furnishing an argument in favor of the revival (we should say extension, for it appears to be lively enough) of the slave-trade between Africa and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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The hams and other delicate cabin stores Captain Brown had originally given them were now also consumed; so that, with the exception of two or three pieces of salt pork still remaining and a cask of beef, they had nothing to depend on save the produce of their garden and some tea -- all their other stores as well as their coffee and sugar having long since been "expended," as sailors say.
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After $2,000,000 had been "expended," the clamor of the stockholders caused the company actually to build several furnaces.
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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Molimina fluviorum, &c., jungendorum, p. 59-62.)] [Footnote 1121: I should doubt this in the time of Charlemagne, even if the term "expended" were substituted for "wasted."
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Although I was working pro bono, I had expended a tremendous amount of time on the matter before the Supreme Court.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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