SPENDER

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• SPENDER (noun)
  The noun SPENDER has 3 senses:

1. English poet and critic (1909-1995)

2. someone who spends money prodigally

3. someone who spends money to purchase goods or services

  Familiarity information: SPENDER used as a noun is uncommon.

• SPENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English poet and critic (1909-1995)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sir Stephen Harold Spender; Spender; Stephen Spender

Instance hypernyms:

literary critic (a critic of literature)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who spends money prodigally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

scattergood; spend-all; spender; spendthrift

Hypernyms ("spender" is a kind of...):

prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spender"):

big spender; high roller (one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment)

Derivation:

spend (spend completely)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who spends money to purchase goods or services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

disburser; expender; spender

Hypernyms ("spender" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Derivation:

spend (pay out)

 Context examples 

Well, if you really must know, she is an old nurse of my wife’s, Rose Spender by name, whom we found in the Brixton Workhouse Infirmary.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But energy spenders burn approximately 10% more energy when they switch from sitting or lying to standing.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)

The scientists used a sample comprising 53 young adults, who were classified into two types, savers and spenders of energy, depending on the amount of energy expenditure they consumed when switching from sitting or lying to standing.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)