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verb (used with object)
1.
to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
2.
to scatter.
noun
3.
extravagant or wasteful expenditure.
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Squander
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| to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle. |
| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
Origin:
1585–95; origin uncertain
1585–95; origin uncertain
Related forms
squan·der·er, noun
squan·der·ing·ly, adverb
re·squan·der, verb (used with object)
un·squan·dered, adjective
Antonyms
1. save.
1. save.
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| squander (ˈskwɒndə) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate |
| 2. | an obsolete word for scatter |
| —n | |
| 3. | rare extravagance or dissipation |
| [C16: of unknown origin] | |
| 'squanderer | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
squander
1589 (implied in squandering), "to spend recklessly or prodigiously," of unknown origin; Shakespeare used it 1593 in "Merchant of Venice" with a sense of "to be scattered over a wide area." Squander-bug, a British symbol of reckless extravagance and waste during war-time shortages, represented as a devilish
EXPANDinsect, was introduced Jan. 1943 by the National Savings Committee. In U.S., Louis Ludlow coined squanderlust (1935) for the tendency of government bureaucracies to spend much money.
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