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spendthrift

[ spend-thrift ]

noun

  1. a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.


adjective

  1. wastefully extravagant; prodigal.

    Synonyms: profligate, improvident, wasteful

spendthrift

/ ˈspɛndˌθrɪft /

noun

  1. a person who spends money in an extravagant manner
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. usually prenominal of or like a spendthrift

    spendthrift economies

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of spendthrift1

First recorded in 1595–1605; spend + thrift
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Word History and Origins

Origin of spendthrift1

C17: from spend + thrift
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Example Sentences

Their more spendthrift mood spells continued strain for supply chains, which were struggling to fill orders even at lower levels of spending.

From Quartz

China has pegged its economic future on its spendthrift consumer class.

From Quartz

The hardest parts of the pandemic will pass, but the question is whether consumers will return to their spendthrift ways — revolving high-interest credit card debt.

For those spendthrifts whose incomes weren’t affected by the coronavirus crisis, the pandemic pause created an opportunity for them to change their ways.

Trying to keep up with spendthrift friends or neighbors is a never-ending game with no true winners.

From Fortune

“We are, both you and I, equally thoughtless, spendthrift and extravagant … We are damned poor,” he wrote her in 1898.

Despite all this, Andrew still allows the spendthrift Fergie, NFI at the Royal Wedding, to live with him when she is England.

If this is a pinchpenny conservative, what is a spendthrift liberal?

She is so careful with her cash that she makes the Sage of Omaha look a positive spendthrift.

A spendthrift rallying a miser, among other things, said, "I'll warrant these buttons on your coat were your great-grandfather's."

Algernon Deuceace, you don't want a father to tell you that you are a swindler and a spendthrift!

He occasionally doles out a little praise, but usually shows himself a spendthrift in censure and abuse.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Spendthrift man and spendthrift Nation must face at last the same law carrying the same penalty.

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