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SPENDER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who spends money to purchase goods or services

Synonyms:

disburser; expender; spender

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("spender" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Derivation:

spend (pay out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who spends money prodigally

Synonyms:

scattergood; spend-all; spender; spendthrift

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("spender" is a kind of...):

prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spender"):

big spender; high roller (one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment)

Derivation:

spend (spend completely)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English poet and critic (1909-1995)

Synonyms:

Sir Stephen Harold Spender; Spender; Stephen Spender

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

literary critic (a critic of literature)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

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