spendthrift
pronunciation
How to pronounce spendthrift in British English:
UK [ˈspendθrɪft]
How to pronounce spendthrift in American English:
US [ˈspɛndˌθrɪft]
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- Noun:
- someone who spends money prodigally
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- Adjective:
- recklessly wasteful
Word Origin
- spendthrift (n.)
- c. 1600, from spend (v.) + thrift (n.) in sense of "savings, profits, wealth." Replaced earlier scattergood (1570s) and spend-all (1550s). From c. 1600 as an adjective.
Example
- 1. In the end , however , spendthrift consumers defied the government .
- 2. With its gleaming shopping malls and omnipresent luxury brands , hong kong is an easy place to turn spendthrift .
- 3. Yet many of asia 's tiger economies seem to have been hit harder than their spendthrift western counterparts .
- 4. Thus the savings of poor asian farmers have financed the habits of spendthrift westerners .
- 5. Yet it was his late father andreas , a spendthrift pasok premier , who presided over the origins of greece 's crisis with a borrowing spree in the 1980s .