Use up, consume fully:
— The legislature expended its time on school questions.

synonym: use.

Roget 677: use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work.    ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.    render useful etc. 644; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit^†, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.    fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of.    use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.    ... show more

Roget 807: pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge; redeem; pay in kind.    pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up [Coll.], fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend etc. 809; put down, lay down.    discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts.    disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute^†; make compensation etc. 30.    pay by credit card, put it on the plastic.    ... show more

Roget 638: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse etc. 73.    cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander etc. 818.    waste its sweetness on the desert air" [Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain etc. (useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.    leak etc. (run out) 295; run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.    ... show more

Pay out.

synonyms: drop, spend.

Roget 297: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern^†, excrete; embogue^†; secrete, secern^†; extravasate [Med.], shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude^†; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt^†, spurt, spill, slop; perspire etc. (exude) 295; breathe, blow etc. (wind) 349.    tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.    eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser [Fr.]; banish etc. (punish) 972; bounce [U.S.]; fire [Slang], fire out [Slang]; throw etc. 284, throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push etc. 276; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll etc. (abrogate) 756; turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to, turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople^†, dispeople^†; depopulate; relegate, deport.    empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.    embowel^†, disbowel^†, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate^†; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate^†.    vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck^†, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.    disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber^†; eructate; drool.    unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump.    be let out.    spew forth, erupt, ooze etc. (emerge) 295.    ... show more

Roget 809: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up [U.S.]; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out [Slang], fork out [Slang], fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.    run up debts, run up bills (debt) 806.    fee etc. (reward) 973; pay one's way etc. (pay) 807; subscribe etc. (give) 784; subsidize.    ... show more

Dutch: verteren, spenderen, besteden, uitgeven