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Meaning of "misspend" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISSPEND

misspend  [ˌmɪsˈspɛnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISSPEND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misspend is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb misspend in English.

WHAT DOES MISSPEND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of misspend in the English dictionary

The definition of misspend in the dictionary is to spend thoughtlessly or wastefully.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISSPEND

PRESENT

Present
I misspend
you misspend
he/she/it misspends
we misspend
you misspend
they misspend
Present continuous
I am misspending
you are misspending
he/she/it is misspending
we are misspending
you are misspending
they are misspending
Present perfect
I have misspent
you have misspent
he/she/it has misspent
we have misspent
you have misspent
they have misspent
Present perfect continuous
I have been misspending
you have been misspending
he/she/it has been misspending
we have been misspending
you have been misspending
they have been misspending
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I misspent
you misspent
he/she/it misspent
we misspent
you misspent
they misspent
Past continuous
I was misspending
you were misspending
he/she/it was misspending
we were misspending
you were misspending
they were misspending
Past perfect
I had misspent
you had misspent
he/she/it had misspent
we had misspent
you had misspent
they had misspent
Past perfect continuous
I had been misspending
you had been misspending
he/she/it had been misspending
we had been misspending
you had been misspending
they had been misspending
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will misspend
you will misspend
he/she/it will misspend
we will misspend
you will misspend
they will misspend
Future continuous
I will be misspending
you will be misspending
he/she/it will be misspending
we will be misspending
you will be misspending
they will be misspending
Future perfect
I will have misspent
you will have misspent
he/she/it will have misspent
we will have misspent
you will have misspent
they will have misspent
Future perfect continuous
I will have been misspending
you will have been misspending
he/she/it will have been misspending
we will have been misspending
you will have been misspending
they will have been misspending
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would misspend
you would misspend
he/she/it would misspend
we would misspend
you would misspend
they would misspend
Conditional continuous
I would be misspending
you would be misspending
he/she/it would be misspending
we would be misspending
you would be misspending
they would be misspending
Conditional perfect
I would have misspend
you would have misspend
he/she/it would have misspend
we would have misspend
you would have misspend
they would have misspend
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been misspending
you would have been misspending
he/she/it would have been misspending
we would have been misspending
you would have been misspending
they would have been misspending
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you misspend
we let´s misspend
you misspend
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to misspend
Past participle
misspent
Present Participle
misspending
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISSPEND


append
əˈpɛnd
compend
kəmˈpɛnd
depend
dɪˈpɛnd
dispend
dɪˈspɛnd
expend
ɪkˈspɛnd
impend
ɪmˈpɛnd
interdepend
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛnd
outspent
aʊtˈspɛnd
overspend
ˌəʊvəˈspɛnd
pend
pɛnd
penned
pɛnd
propend
prəʊˈpɛnd
spend
spɛnd
stipend
ˈstaɪpɛnd
suspend
səˈspɛnd
underspend
ˌʌndəˈspɛnd
vilipend
ˈvɪlɪˌpɛnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISSPEND

missort
missound
Missouri
Missourian
missout
misspeak
misspell
misspelling
misspelt
misspender
misspent
misstart
misstate
misstatement
missteer
misstep
misstrike
misstyle
missuit

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISSPEND

at an end
boyfriend
come to an end
end
forspend
friend
girlfriend
legend
outspend
parpend
perpend
pretend
recommend
resuspend
send
tend
the end
trend
upend
weekend

Synonyms and antonyms of misspend in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «misspend» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISSPEND

Find out the translation of misspend to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of misspend from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «misspend» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

滥用 >
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

malgastar
570 millions of speakers

English

misspend
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

misspend
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

misspend
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

потратил понапрасну
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mal gasto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপব্যয় করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gaspiller
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kehilangan wang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vergeuden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無駄遣いする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘못 사용되다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misspend
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lang phí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறாக செலவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकिचे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kötü harcamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spendere male
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

misspend
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

витратив даремно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Misspend
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

misspend
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wanbestee
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

misspend
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misspend
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misspend

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISSPEND»

The term «misspend» is used very little and occupies the 153.294 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISSPEND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «misspend» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «misspend» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about misspend

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISSPEND»

Discover the use of misspend in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misspend and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Harvard Book: Selections from Three Centuries
Thomas. Shepard,. Jr. THAT. PRECIOUS. TIME. YOU. NOW. MISSPEND. (1672). Two famous letters of advice to seventeenth-century Harvard students have come down to us. One was from Leonard Hoar, A.B 1650, to his freshman nephew ...
William Bentinck-Smith, 1982
2
A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... ...
MISSPELL', o. To spell wrong; to write or utter with wrong letters. MISSPELLED, \ pp. Spelled wrong, or MISSPELT', / with wrong letters. MISSPELLING, ppr. Spelling wrong. MISSPELLING, n. A wrong spelling; false orthography. MISSPEND' ...
Noah Webster, 1832
3
The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law
MISSPEND— (Sec also Husband and Wife ; Parent and Child). — Misspend, within the meaning of the statute, which provides a penalty for " all persons who misspend what they earn and do not provide for the support of themselves and their ...
‎1891
4
The American and English encyclopedia of law
MISSPEND— (See also Husband and Wife; Parent and Child).— Misspend, within the meaning of the statute, which provides a penalty for " all persons who misspend what they earn and do not provide for the support of themselves and their ...
John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, 1891
5
"Windsor Farmes": A Glimpse of an Old Parish, Together with ...
Lastly it has been A Common thing for wicked men to lose a previous day of Grace & to misspend times of precious advantage for thier souls, Or thus it has been a Common thin,-; with wicked persons to misspend and waste times of Great ...
John Alden Stoughton, 1883
6
The American and English Encyclopædia of Law: Mechanics' ...
MISSPEND— (See also Husband and Wife; Parent and CHILD). — Misspend, within the meaning of the statute, which provides a penalty for " all persons who misspend what they earn and do not provide for the support of themselves and their ...
John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, 1891
7
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
ME. misspenden ; < ww-1 4- spend.] To spend amiss ; make a bad or useless expenditure of; waste: as, to misspend time or money ; to misspend life. I haue mysspendyd my yonge age In synne and wantonnehede also. Political Poemt, etc (ed ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
8
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
ME. misspenden; < mis-1 4- spend.] To spend amiss; make a bad or useless expenditure of; waste: as, to misspend time or money; to misspend life. I haue mysspendyd my yonge age In synne and wantonnehede also. Political Poems, etc. (ed.
‎1906
9
The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
ME. misspenden ; < mis-1 4- spend.] To spend amiss; make a bad or useless expenditure of; waste: as, to misspend time or money ; to misspend life. I haue mysspendyd my yonge age In synne and wantonnehede also. Political Poems, etc.
William Dwight Whitney, 1890
10
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
A false spelling ; false orthography. misspend (mis-spend'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. misspent, ppr. misspending. [< ME. misspenden ; < mis-1 4- s]jend.] To spend amiss; make a bad or useless expenditure of; waste: as, to misspend time or money; ...
‎1911

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISSPEND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term misspend is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Long Case For Garmin: Has The Market Corrected Too Much …
Some may be worried that the management could misspend this $2.7bn cash buffer, but we would point to Garmin's history of returning value to ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
2
Stop selling 'resilience' as panacea to the poor and marginalised
It is a moral abomination as an organisation to accept funds to improve the lot of others but instead to misspend the funds on building a ... «The Stringer, Jul 15»
3
Ohio Department of Education retracts charter school assessments …
... school insiders to study and develop accountability standards that have been lacking in Ohio. found charter schools misspend tax dollars four ... «Akron Beacon Journal, Jul 15»
4
Charter School Accountability Act Would Tighten Regulatory …
... 30th of “4,263 audits released last year by State Auditor Dave Yost's office indicates charter schools misspend public money nearly four times ... «The Nonprofit Quarterly, Jul 15»
5
Opinion – Shoal Lake #40: The Water Bill is Long Overdue
That honourable minister was able to misspend $50 million on parks and gazebos in his riding without so much as a sign-off or paper trail. «Net Newsledger, Jul 15»
6
Brown says reform benefits Ohio
Brown went on to explain that these school misspend public money four times the rate of other government funded agencies. He also claimed ... «Portsmouth Daily Times, Jul 15»
7
Importantce of Jail Funding
My job is to make sure we do not misspend or overspend public money (tax dollars) in any of those funds. Given the fact that the jail has ... «Kokomo Herald, Jul 15»
8
No time for recess
... that charters perform no better than traditional schools overall, and that they misspend taxpayer money at a higher rate than any other sector. «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»
9
Misleading information about the County Option Income Tax
My job is to make sure we do not misspend or overspend public money (tax dollars) in any and/or all of those funds. Given the fact that the jail ... «Kokomo Perspective, Jul 15»
10
Largely run by for-profit corporations, Ohio's charter schools …
Largely run by for-profit corporations, Ohio's charter schools misspend tax dollars—and lawmakers are letting it continue. Posted by : Lindsay ... «The Progressive Pulse, Jul 15»

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