squander
verb (used with object)
to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed byaway ).
has been squandering
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present perfect progressiveof squander (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Juniper has had an opportunity to pull close to Cisco but has been squandering that chance.
From Forbes ● Dec. 2, 2011
He was sick and tired, he said, of raising the scores of millions of dollars which Nationalist China has been squandering annually on bootless wars.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have slaved for over a year to make it what it is while he has been squandering money you had to scrape to send him.
From The Short Cut by Frank Tenney Johnson
