expending
present participle ofexpend
| 单词 | expending |
| 释义 | expending present participle ofexpend expend verb[T] formaluk/ɪkˈspend/us/ɪkˈspend/to use orspendtime,effort, ormoney: You expend so mucheffortfor so littlereturn. Governments expend a lot ofresourcesonwar. Using and misusing
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Paying money Examplesofexpendingexpending In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Many participants felt that they wereexpendingever greater efforts at work, but receiving ever decreased feedback in terms of their achievements. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, inertia seems to keep people in the plan rather thanexpendingthe effort to opt out. From theCambridge English Corpus For example better vowel distinctiveness together with better consonant distinctiveness can make up forexpendingmore effort. From theCambridge English Corpus In analyzing these various practices for doing "answering," it may seem that we areexpendinga great deal of energy for a modest payoff. From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, patrollers spend more time foraging and fly greater distances, probablyexpendingmore energy, than pupal-mating males. From theCambridge English Corpus A computerised image processing allows the analysis of wave collision structures,expendingconcentric circles and rotating spirals in terms of wave velocity and front geometry. From theCambridge English Corpus Since there is no workable mechanism to enforce compliance, there is little point inexpendingresources on auditing emissions. From theCambridge English Corpus Intuitively, since there is no workable mechanism to enforce compliance, there is little point inexpendingresources on auditing emissions. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, in the case of private ownership systems, each owner has to protect his own property byexpendinghis resources. From theCambridge English Corpus They must demonstrate their ability to furnish solutions which make it worthexpendingtime, energy, and dedication. From theCambridge English Corpus With noncompliant patients,expendingmore resources on reviewing therapy, offering counselling and aids may prevent expensive hospital care whilst improving the quality of patient care. From theCambridge English Corpus These improvements should result inexpendingfewer resources on the design process while achieving better quality and more environmentally friendly products. From theCambridge English Corpus Elderly people are often captured by the tyranny of survival,expendinghuge medical resources to extend life briefly at its temporal and qualitative margins. From theCambridge English Corpus There are many examples of patients who feel that they have no chance of recovery, but for whom society isexpendinga great deal of resources (3;29). From theCambridge English Corpus They could pay high wages to individual workers and expect that those individual workers would reciprocate byexpendinga great deal of effort in producing a good product. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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