spend·thrift

(spĕnd′thrĭft′)

One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.

adj.

Wasteful or extravagant: spendthrift bureaucrats.

[spend + thrift, accumulated wealth (obsolete).]

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spendthrift

(ˈspɛndˌθrɪft)

(Banking & Finance) a person who spends money in an extravagant manner

adj

(Banking & Finance) (usually prenominal) of or like a spendthrift: spendthrift economies.

[C17: from spend + thrift]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

spend•thrift

(ˈspɛndˌθrɪft)

n.

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

adj.

2. wastefully extravagant; prodigal.

[1595–1605]

spendthrift

- One who spends the "thrift" or earnings/wealth of another.

spendthrift

noun

1. squanderer, spender, profligate, prodigal, big spender, waster, wastrel I was a natural spendthrift when I was single.
squanderer penny-pincher (informal), miser, skinflint, Scrooge, tight-arse (taboo slang), tightwad (U.S. & Canad. slang), tight-ass (U.S. taboo slang), meanie or meany (informal, chiefly Brit.)

adjective

1. wasteful, extravagant, prodigal, profligate, improvident his father's spendthrift ways
wasteful careful, prudent, economical, sparing, provident, frugal, thrifty, parsimonious

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

spendthrift

noun

A person who spends money or resources wastefully:

prodigal, profligate, scattergood, waster, wastrel.

adjective

Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending:

extravagant, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, wasteful.

Translations

مُبَذِّر، مُسْرِف

-icemarnotratník

ødeland

eyîslukló

márnotratník

spendthrift

[ˈspendθrɪft]

A. ADJ → derrochador, pródigo

B. N → derrochador(a) m/f, pródigo/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

spendthrift

[ˈspɛndθrɪft] n → dépensier/ière m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

spendthrift

adj → verschwenderisch

n → Verschwender(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

spendthrift

[ˈspɛndˌθrɪft]

1. adj → spendereccio/a

2. n → spendaccione/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

spend

(spend) – past tense, past participle spent (-t) – verb

1. to use up or pay out (money). He spends more than he earns.

2. to pass (time). I spent a week in Spain this summer.

spent (spent) adjective

1. used. a spent match.

2. exhausted. By the time we had done half of the job we were all spent.

ˈspendthrift noun

a person who spends his money freely and carelessly.

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A SPENDTHRIFT, seeing a single swallow, pawned his cloak, thinking that Summer was at hand.

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How you love to play the spendthrift! I tell you that I do not need it, that such expenditure is unnecessary.

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"You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift," said the count, and having kissed his wife's hand he went back to his study.

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Or did he only seem to be a member of the ruling body, although in truth he was neither ruler nor subject, but just a spendthrift?

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He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be hers hereafter.

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I PAID three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind of spendthrift anyway; and then these people had wanted to give me the food for nothing, scant as their provision was, and so it was a grateful pleasure to emphasize my appreciation and sincere thankfulness with a good big financial lift where the money would do so much more good than it would in my helmet, where, these pennies being made of iron and not stinted in weight, my half-dollar's worth was a good deal of a burden to me.

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I don't want to renew our old disagreement about your father's conduct to those two sisters, or to deny that his brother Andrew may have behaved badly to him; I am willing to admit that the high moral position he took in the matter is quite unassailable by such a miserable sinner as I am; and I will not dispute that my own spendthrift habits incapacitate me from offering any opinion on the conduct of other people's pecuniary affairs.

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Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags.

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It is sufficient to know that vanity, interest, poverty, and every spendthrift consideration urged him to look upon the proposal with favour, and that where all other inducements were wanting, the habitual carelessness of his disposition stepped in and still weighed down the scale on the same side.

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Perses, however, who is represented as an idler and spendthrift, obtained and kept the larger share by bribing the corrupt `lords' who ruled from Thespiae ("Works and Days", 37-39).

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"Pitt will never spend it, my dear, that is quite certain; for a greater miser does not exist in England, and he is as odious, though in a different way, as his spendthrift brother, the abandoned Rawdon."

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No, I never believed myself to be a hoarder; in fact, I knew only too well that I was a spendthrift. And already, with a sort of fear, a sort of sinking in my heart, I could hear the cries of the croupiers-- "Trente et un, rouge, impair et passe," "Quarte, noir, pair et manque.

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Noun	1.	spendthrift - someone who spends money prodigally scattergood, spend-all, spender prodigal, squanderer, profligate - a recklessly extravagant consumer big spender, high roller - one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment; "the last of the big spenders"
Adj.	1.	spendthrift - recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" prodigal, profligate, extravagant wasteful - tending to squander and waste