Gastar
Example: No vull gastar tots els diners en una sola compra important.
Definition
"Gastar" means to use or expend resources such as money, time, or effort, often implying consumption or depletion. For example, in the phrase 'No vull gastar tots els diners en una sola compra important,' it refers to spending all the money on one big purchase.
Etymology
The word "gastar" comes from the Old Catalan and Old Spanish term derived from the Vulgar Latin *vastare*, meaning 'to lay waste' or 'to squander.' Did you know that originally, it had a sense of wasting or destroying resources, which evolved into the modern sense of spending or using up?
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"Gastar" appears in the Vocaplus list "Catalan - General - (B2) - set 2", containing 111 commonly used words.
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