Defn: One who. or that which, expels.
EXPEND
Ex*pend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.]
Etym: [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay
out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.]
Defn: To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.
EXPEND
Ex*pend", v. i.
1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.
2. To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay .
EXPENDITOR
Ex*pend"i*tor, n. Etym: [LL.] (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.
EXPENDITURE
Ex*pend"iture, n.
1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.