Definition of "spent" []

• Past tense and past participle of spend. (verb)
• Used up; consumed: a spent youth. (adjective)
• Having come to an end; passed: a spent era of opulence. (adjective)
• Depleted of energy, force, or strength; exhausted: At the end of the hot day the spent workers slept under a shady tree. (adjective)
• Nautical Of or relating to a vessel at the end of a voyage, with fuel, stores, and water consumed and cargo discharged. (adjective)

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• "The Differential Calculus is begun and the remainder of the term spent on exercises in differentiation of functions."
• "Joseph Jackson didn't read the contract he signed for the boys; he thought he was committing them for one year but in effect Motown locked them in for five; their royalty rate amounted to roughly a dime per album -- say $100,000 for a million records sold -- minus whatever the label spent on the band, for recording and just about anything else."
• "I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half."