as in wastrel
someone who spends money freely or foolishly
we want you to get a job so that you'll be a waster of your own money and not ours
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Recent Examples of waster
When the city of Sacramento decided to crack down on water wasters in late March, inspectors handed out more than 350 citations in less than two days.
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Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
The company has no use for delegators and money wasters.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
Director and co-founder of the Work Time Reduction Center Of Excellence Joe O’Connor tells PBS companies can cut work hours and maintain productivity by fixing time-wasters like overlong meetings, inefficient processes and other workplace distractions.
—Emily Washburn, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
Make sure to send your ballots in for this ridiculous, time waster of a California governor recall election; and also check out Variety’s loads of Emmy content, including our Emmy Extra editions, to fully immerse yourself in the categories before voting!
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
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Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
The company has no use for delegators and money wasters.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
Director and co-founder of the Work Time Reduction Center Of Excellence Joe O’Connor tells PBS companies can cut work hours and maintain productivity by fixing time-wasters like overlong meetings, inefficient processes and other workplace distractions.
—Emily Washburn, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
Make sure to send your ballots in for this ridiculous, time waster of a California governor recall election; and also check out Variety’s loads of Emmy content, including our Emmy Extra editions, to fully immerse yourself in the categories before voting!
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waster
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Henry Muck, suitably nicknamed Prince Hal by his family and friends, may be Industry’s version of the ultimate privileged wastrel.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
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Atay lingers on the outskirts, keeping the company of workers and wastrels, poets and drunks—all those who refuse the monumental transformations of Turkish society.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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That’s half a trillion sucked out of the market and into the bottomless pit of the incontinent spendthrifts in the U.S. government.Clem Chambers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Even for a country as awash with cash as Venezuela has been since 2004, Chávez's spendthrift ways have left behind a worrisome level of debt, fiscal deficit, and dependence on imports.Javier Corrales, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2013
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After all, there’s always one prodigal — one unstable element who’s removed themself as far as possible from the precarious family mixture.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
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He is angered by his father’s instant acceptance of the prodigal’s return.Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
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“Waster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waster. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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