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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Example Sentences

It’s funny because it’s swaggering, full-of-itself New York, and the Mets are one of baseball’s most profligate franchises, a free-spending, $360-million payroll outfit owned by zillionaire financier Steve Cohen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

There was a rich businessman whose free-spending ad blitz made him inescapable on the airwaves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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

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