expend
/ɪkˈspend/ verb [T] formalDefinition
› to use effort, time, or money to do something: [+ doing sth] You expend far too much energy doing things for other people. Governments expend a lot of resources on war.
(Definition of expend verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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