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SQUANDERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does squandering mean?
• SQUANDERING (noun)
The noun SQUANDERING has 1 sense:
1. spending resources lavishly and wastefully
Familiarity information: SQUANDERING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spending resources lavishly and wastefully
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
more wasteful than the squandering of time
Hypernyms ("squandering" is a kind of...):
dissipation; waste; wastefulness (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squandering"):
squandermania (prodigious squandering (usually by a government))
Derivation:
squander (spend extravagantly)
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