spend·er

[spen-der]
noun
a person who spends, especially one who habitually spends excessively or lavishly; spendthrift.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see spend, -er1

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Spen·der

[spen-der]
noun
Stephen, 1909–96, English poet and critic.
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Spender is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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spender (ˈspɛndə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a person who spends money in a manner specified: a big spender

Spender (ˈspɛndə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Sir Stephen. 1909--95, English poet and critic, who played an important part in the left-wing literary movement of the 1930s. His works include Journals 1939--83 (1985) and Collected Poems (1985)

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Thousand-dollar suites with private plunge pools have long been lapped up by big-spender vacationers.
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But the die is cast for a protracted weakening of the world's biggest spender.
None of these countries is a big spender on education.
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