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spendthrift

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noun

a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.

adjective

wastefully extravagant; prodigal.

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Origin:
1595–1605; spend + thrift

Synonyms
2. wasteful, improvident, profligate.

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Spendthrift provisions often prevent a beneficiary from selling or transferring their ownership interest in the trust.

His spendthrift ways with our money were replaced with miserly ways with his own.

And politicians, spendthrift as some may be, are not the main source of the problem.

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Spendthrift provisions often prevent a beneficiary from selling or transferring their ownership interest in the trust.

His spendthrift ways with our money were replaced with miserly ways with his own.

And politicians, spendthrift as some may be, are not the main source of the problem.

There are those with spendthrift genotypes and those with thrifty genotypes.

But new data seem to show that people are not nearly as spendthrift and heedless of the future as is commonly believed.

Quite right too, say those with traditional distaste for the spendthrift.

He's in poor health and the spendthrift habits he picked up during his glory years have left him deep in debt.

Spendthrift people with high incomes can have a negative net worth, and thus surely not count as rich in any meaningful sense.

Blair goes to college and becomes a playboy and a spendthrift.

The commission's response has been to seek more power to monitor countries' fiscal policies and penalise the spendthrift.

Inflation was tamed, and spendthrift local and federal governments were required by law to rein in their debts.

The southern countries are too inefficient and spendthrift.

There has been far too much tolerance of the spendthrift south riding on the backs of the frugal north.

All the stimulus in the world is not going to turn a now-cautious, snakebit consumer into a spendthrift.

Yet reasoning of this kind is increasingly used to explain how spendthrift countries get into trouble.

Emotions often sway our spendthrift or miserly ways.

The difference between a spendthrift and a tightwad comes down to emotional pain, and it's not good to be either type of shopper.

Guinle was not only a spendthrift but also a bad judge of business opportunities.

Hutchison as a spendthrift who had supported pork barrel projects and the bailout for the banks.

The average casino job is lucrative enough to enjoy a spendthrift lifestyle.

If you are a user that loves to consume lots and lots of bits, you should pay for your spendthrift usage.

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spendthrift (ˈspɛndˌθrɪft)

—n
1.	a person who spends money in an extravagant manner

—*adj*
2.	(usually prenominal) of or like a spendthrift: spendthrift economies

[C17: from spend + thrift]

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Word Origin & History

spendthrift

c.1600, from spend + thrift in sense of "savings, profits, wealth." Replaced earlier scattergood (1570s) and spend-all (1550s).

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