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SQUANDERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spending resources lavishly and wastefully
Example:
more wasteful than the squandering of time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("squandering" is a kind of...):
dissipation; waste; wastefulness (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squandering"):
squandermania (prodigious squandering (usually by a government))
Derivation:
squander (spend extravagantly)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb squander
