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free-spending

American  
[free-spen-ding] / ˈfriˈspɛn dɪŋ /

adjective

  1. spending or tending to spend freely.

    If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.


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Whether or not LIV survives beyond this weekend, what’s left will bear little resemblance to the free-spending upstart that stormed onto the scene.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

As subscriber growth slows, Big Streaming is buckling down on revenue maximization and pulling back on its free-spending ways.

From MarketWatch Dec. 12, 2025

Even a stellar fourth quarter might not reassure the market, as a surge in chip sales could add to worries that Oracle and its free-spending peers are inflating an AI bubble.

From Barron's Dec. 11, 2025

Big money is pouring into the SoCal desert’s music economy, with the new Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert and free-spending Yaamava’ resort near Highland among them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2024

At first Peter did not respond to the overtures and insistance of the handsome, well-dressed, free-spending, New York swell.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

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