spend

/spend/ noun [S] ECONOMICS, FINANCE

Definition

› the amount of money that is spent on a particular activity: the spend on/for sth The total spend on the project was almost a million pounds. If your company's annual spend on telephone calls exceeds $3,000, then it would be worth changing plans.the total/actual spend BP will spend $1 billion more this year, raising the total spend to $15 billion. advertising/marketing/promotional spend

→ See also overspend noun, underspend noun

(Definition of spend noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)