expending
支出する
解説 Definition
expending は expend（支出する、費やす）の現在分詞・動名詞です。お金だけでなく、時間や労力などの資源を目的のために使う場合にも用いられます。
Expending means using up or paying out a resource, such as money, energy, time, or effort, for a particular purpose. It is the present-participle or gerund form of expend and is relatively formal in tone.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
expend「支出する・費やす」の語末 e を落として -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞です。expend funds、expend energy、expend effort のように、限りある資金・力・労力を目的のために使う場面で覚えます。spending より硬く、資源の消費を意識させる表現です。
Form expending from expend by dropping the final silent e and adding -ing. Learn it with the resources that commonly follow it: expending funds, expending energy, and expending considerable effort. The word is more formal than spending and often highlights that a limited resource is being used for a purpose or gradually consumed. Picture a city paying for repairs, athletes conserving energy, or researchers devoting effort to verification. In every case, something valuable moves out of the available supply, which connects naturally with the ex- idea of “out.”
例文
The city is expending funds on repairs to the old library.
市は古い図書館の修理に資金を支出しています。
The team avoided expending too much energy before the final round.
チームは最終ラウンドの前に力を使いすぎないようにしました。
Researchers are expending considerable effort to verify the results.
研究者たちは結果を検証するためにかなりの労力を費やしています。
expending の類義語・関連語
expending の語源・成り立ち Etymology
expending は expend の進行形で、ex-「外へ」＋ラテン語 pendere「重さを量る・支払う」に分かれます。昔はお金を量って払ったため、「外へ量い出す」感覚から「支出する」の意味になりました。関連語は expense, spend です。
Expending is the -ing form of expend. Expend came through Latin expendere, formed from ex-, “out,” and pendere, “to weigh” or “pay.” In societies where payment could involve weighed metal, weighing out and paying were closely connected ideas. English retained the financial sense and extended the verb to other resources, so people can expend not only money but also energy, time, and effort.
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