free-spending
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Rivals bemoaned the free-spending outsider, which had become hard to outbid and was poaching executives from traditional studios with big pay increases.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025
Preller had the benefit of a free-spending and patient owner during his past few seasons as general manager of the San Diego Padres.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 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 Ford, Paul Leicester
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