Spendthrift - English meaning

adjective

Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.

Usage examples:

It was rather extravagant to buy both

adjective

More expensive than is necessary or reasonable, or having the characteristics of being expensive

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Company executives enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle., top athletes are showered with extravagant gi…

adjective

Spending or costing a lot of money

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Severe cuts in public spending mean that demands for extravagant pay rises are no longer realistic.…

adjective

Not having or showing foresight; spendthrift or thoughtless.

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Improvident and undisciplined behaviour

adjective

Not planning carefully for the future, especially by spending money in a way that is unwise

adjective

(of a person, attitude, or action) not showing a proper sense of responsibility.

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It would have been irresponsible just to drive on

adjective

Not thinking carefully enough or not caring about what might result from actions taken

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] it would have been irresponsible to let claire drive home when she was so tired.

adjective

Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.

Usage examples:

Prodigal habits die hard

noun

A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way.

Usage examples:

He hated rich prodigals who lived useless, imprudent lives

adjective

Tending to spend or use something without thinking of the future

Usage examples:

He was prodigal with his talents.

adjective

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

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Profligate consumers of energy

noun

A licentious, dissolute person.

Usage examples:

He is a drunkard and a profligate

verb

Waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner.

Usage examples:

£100m of taxpayers' money has been squandered on administering the tax

verb

Present participle of squander

Usage examples:

They'll quite happily squander a whole year's savings on two weeks in the sun., ireland squandered …

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) spending money in an extravagant and wasteful way.

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A certain disillusion is perhaps necessary for the practice of conversation: it is the art of the t…

adjective

(of a person, action, or process) using or expending something of value carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

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Wasteful energy consumption

adjective

Being a bad use of something valuable that you have only a limited amount of

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Wasteful spending, a wasteful use of resources

adjective

Not being careful about the amount of resources used for something

Usage examples:

Top business advisers have been brought in to identify areas of wasteful government spending.

noun

A wasteful person or thing.

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You are a great waster of time

noun

A wasteful or good-for-nothing person.

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I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son

noun

A person who does nothing positive with their life, making no use of their abilities or the opportunities that are offered to them