spend time

Verb

Meaning

To dedicate time to an activity.

These days, many people spend time surfing social networking sites.

To accompany someone for leisure; to hang out.
It's my day off today - let's spend some time together. Parents should spend more time with their children.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

while dawdle socialize hobnob hang around keep company fraternize

Related terms

take the time

Examples

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever. Bruce Lee

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. Pierre Trudeau

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with. Anjelica Huston

Never spend time with people who don't respect you. New Zealander Proverb

Close letter words and terms

spend the summer spend the whole night spend the winter spend time at spend time thinking about spend time with