Spending in spanish
pronunciation: gɑstoʊ part of speech: noun
spend2 = gastar. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio spent]
Example: In 1986/87 Glasgow District Library spent over £30,000 on vandalism -- both on putting it right and in trying to prevent it.more:
» misspend = dilapidar, malgastar, desperdiciar.
Example: The former leader of the party and other party members are suspected of misspending more than half a million euros.» out-spend = superar en gastos. [También escrito outspend. Pincha en para ver una lista de palabras que comienzan con este prefijo usado para indicar generalmente que una persona o cosa supera a otra]
Example: Radical Islamist extremists have out-spent, out-manoeuvred and out-strategised democracies around the world.» overspend = gastar en exceso, gastar demasiado, gastar más de la cuenta. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio overspent. Pincha en para ver una lista de palabras que comienzan con este prefijo usado para indicar generalmente que algo se hace en exceso]
Example: A statistical model has been developed to predict, at any point in the fiscal year, the number of orders that may be placed so as to spend the fund fully but not overspend.» save a penny, spend a dollar = lo barato sale caro.
Example: Save a penny, spend a dollar .... looks like you learned a valuable lesson, let the professionals do the work next time.» save a penny, spend a pound = lo barato sale caro.
Example: I've made the 'save a penny spend a pound' mistakes on the car in the past so this time it will be done right.» spend + a bundle (of money) = gastarse un montón, gastarse el oro y el moro, gastarse una fortuna.
Example: You don't have to spend a bundle unless you buy new and want the very very best and latest.» spend + a fortune = gastarse una fortuna, gastarse un montón, gastarse el oro y el moro.
Example: Rebecca wants to give her home an exterior makeover, but doesn't want to spend a fortune.» spend + a packet (of money) = gastarse un montón, gastarse el oro y el moro, gastarse una fortuna.
Example: Webcams mean that everyone can operate their own video security systems without spending a packet.» spend + a penny = hacer pis, hacer pipí, cambiarle el agua al canario, echar una meada, mear, orinar.
Example: Then there's spend a penny, which comes from the earliest public toilets, which had locks on the doors which cost a penny to open.» spend + a pretty penny = gastarse un montón, gastarse el oro y el moro, gastarse una fortuna.
Example: I love to look nice and I spend a pretty penny doing so.» spend + a ton of money = gastarse una millonada, gastarse un montón de dinero, gastarse un dineral.
Example: It is easy to get in the mindset that vacation is a time to spoil oneself, and that is true, but it shouldn't translate into spending a ton of money.» spend + big (bucks) = gastarse mucho dinero, gastarse un montón, gastarse una pasta, gastar a lo grande.
Example: More runners are spending big bucks on orthotics.» spend + big (money) = gastarse mucho dinero, gastarse un montón, gastarse una pasta, gastar a lo grande.
Example: The World Cup is such a big business for some of the world's largest corporations that many countries spend big money for the right to host it.» spend + cash = gastar dinero.
Example: Not only was his wife as ugly as sin, and twice as evil, but had a voracious appetite for spending cash as though it was going out of fashion.» spend + effort = dedicar esfuerzo.
Example: If they were not to spend a great deal of time and effort in editing and verifying material they needed simply to accept whatever individual bibliographers gave them uncritically.» spend + money = gastar dinero.
Example: In principle, the terminals could be installed anywhere people spend money.» spend + Posesivo + money wisely = utilizar el dinero sabiamente, gastar el dinero con prudencia, gastar con prudencia.
Example: But she doesn't always spend her money wisely, preferring cabs to buses.» spend + six figures = gastarse una millonada.
Example: Companies promoting 'weight loss breakthroughs' can spend six figures on commercials and still have money to burn.» spendthrift = derrochador, despilfarrador, manirroto, disipador.
Example: Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.» spend + wisely = utilizar el dinero sabiamente, gastar con prudencia, gastar el dinero con prudencia.
Example: And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government = Y los que manejemos el dinero público tendremos que responder de ello (gastar con prudencia, cambiar malos hábitos y hacer nuestro trabajo a la luz del día) porque sólo entonces podremos restablecer la confianza entre el pueblo y su gobierno.spend3 = pasar. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio spent]
Example: Any funeral scene in a story inevitably conjures in myself memories of my childhood spent as the son of an undertaker.more:
» spend + a sleepless night = pasar la noche en blanco, pasar la noche en vela, no pegar (un) ojo (en toda la noche).
Example: From your puffy eyes, I deduce you spent a sleepless night.» spend + Posesivo + leisure = entretenerse, pasar el tiempo libre.
Example: By contrast, other quite literate people prefer to spend their leisure watching television, listening to the radio, going to the cinema or any of a hundred other forms of recreation.» spend + Posesivo + leisure time = entretenerse, pasar el tiempo libre, dedicarse al ocio.
Example: All the glamour, prestige and indeed wealth make the capital of Britain a hugely attractive place to visit, spend leisure time and do business.» spend + lifetime = dedicar toda una vida.
Example: In no way could it ever be suggested that the Reverend Keble Martin had spent virtually a lifetime working towards a successful market for a book; his was truly a labour of love which happily became a tremendous popular success.» spend + Posesivo + days = pasar los días, pasar el tiempo, dedicarse a.
Example: He now spends his days drawing, painting and counting himself lucky that he actually gets paid for doing what he loves.» spend + the holidays = pasar las vacaciones.
Example: A Manlius man died in a car crash early Sunday while driving back to college in Florida after spending the holidays with family, a close friend said.» spend + the night = pasar la noche, pernoctar.
Example: Dinner will be served in the boma at the Lodge, where you will again spend the night.» spend + Tiempo = pasar + Tiempo.
Example: Since he had already spent 4 days in prison, the judge decided further punishment would be wrong and that sentence would be suspended.» spend + time = dedicar tiempo, pasar tiempo, emplear tiempo.
Example: Superior cataloguing may result, since more consistency and closer adherence to standard codes are likely to emerge with cataloguers who spend all of their time cataloguing, than with a librarian who tackles cataloguing as one of various professional tasks.spending = gasto.
Example: Whereas this proportion is dwindling as a percentage of the total budget, agricultural spending continues to rise in real terms.more:
» curb + public spending = frenar el gasto público.
Example: The high domestic rate of inflation and efforts to curb public spending has led to drastic increases in the prices of books and periodicals published abroad.» cut + spending = reducir gastos.
Example: However, the need to cut local authority spending and rivalry between the city libraries and provincial library centres prevented these networks from achieving their full potential.» defence spending = gastos de defensa, gasto en defensa.
Example: Pakistan's government jacked up defence spending in a new budget Friday that set a deficit of four per cent of GDP.» go on + a spending spree = despilfarrar el dinero, derrochar el dinero, gastar dinero sin ton ni son, gastar dinero a lo loco, gastar dinero a diestro y siniestro.
Example: During the nineties, perhaps in celebration of their seeming success in making loads of money in stocks, consumers went on a spending spree.» government spending = gasto público.
Example: While being a crusader against government spending, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has run afoul of problems in her personal finances.» maverick spending = compras fuera de acuerdos con proveedores. [Usado generalmente en el contexto de las empresas o instituciones]
Example: To successfully maintain control over your financial condition, saddling maverick spending must become a mission of every employee.» overspending = gasto excesivo.
Example: Among the factors which have contributed to the current troubles by the paperback publishing market are overbidding for blockbuster titles, distribution methods, overproduction and overspending.» rogue spending = compras fuera de acuerdos con proveedores. [Usado generalmente en el contexto de las empresas o instituciones]
Example: This is not to say that only companies with unmanaged infrastructures suffer the scourge of rogue spending.» runaway spending = gasto descontrolado.
Example: The rows over Britain's contributions to the Community budget and runaway spending on the the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which took up two thirds of the budget, were documented blow by blow in the press.» social spending = gasto social.
Example: Post-crisis budgets will be marked by a further gutting of social spending.» spending cuts = recortes económicos.
Example: This article examines the effect on libraries in the UK of the enforcement of local government spending cuts.» spending money = dinero de bolsillo, dinero para gastos (personales).
Example: I was wondering if anyone could give me a rough idea of how much spending money we will need for 4 nights in Vegas.» spending power = poder adquisitivo.
Example: More periodicals, and more expensive periodicals are chasing customers with reduced spending power.» spending spree = despilfarro de dinero, derroche de dinero.
Example: The industry spending sprees of the mid-90s are gone.