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A comment on Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips. Parent comment

Re:Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions... by abirch on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:37AM (#48831812)
spend is a noun in this sentence. As a noun, spend refers to the amount of money spent for a particular purpose or over a specified length of time
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Re:Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions... by prewett on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:12AM (#48832241)
Spending is also a noun. A gerund used to be the way you nounify a verb. “Ad spending” is perfectly grammatical, unlike “ad spend”.

This seems to be part of a broader trend, not just business. One group of pastor-students would talk about giving a “preach”. Drove me nuts.

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