spendthrift
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noun
1.
a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
adjective
2.
wastefully extravagant; prodigal.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who spends money in an extravagant manner |
| —adj | |
| 2. | (usually prenominal) of or like a spendthrift: spendthrift economies |
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Spendthrift
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Example sentences
His spendthrift ways with our money were replaced with miserly ways with his own.
All the stimulus in the world is not going to turn a now-cautious, snakebit consumer into a spendthrift.
There are those with spendthrift genotypes and those with thrifty genotypes.
Spendthrift provisions often prevent a beneficiary from selling or transferring their ownership interest in the trust.
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