wasting asset
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To some degree, American and Israeli air superiority is a wasting asset.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Unlike oil and other commodities, timber isn’t a wasting asset, with trees growing about 2.5% a year.
From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025
After all, gala-dinner seats are a wasting asset: If you don’t sell them by the night of the dinner, they’re worthless.
From Slate • May 10, 2018
Mr. Terry said that the Old Post Office’s “historic integrity has been restored, and the wasting asset is now being put to productive use.”
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017
A memory from some book on political economy flashed through her mind: beauty was a wasting asset.
From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel
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