TRIFLE (AWAY) Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

trifle (away)

verb

Definition of trifle (away)

as in to spend

to use up carelessly trifled away his hard-earned professional respect with a single act of plagiarism

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Minnesota Secretary of State Scott Simon, a Democrat, said in August that his office expects to spend roughly $250,000 on private vendors to conduct penetration testing, which can expose security vulnerabilities and recommend actionable fixes.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
As part of the arrangement, the elder Ryan agreed to cover the lion’s share of the differences in building a new stadium, originally priced at $830 million, from the $300 million the university planned to spend on renovating the older one.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of spend

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Success loses some of its shine when your private world is absorbing all the strain.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026
Apple had introduced the iPhone just two months earlier, and Brown concluded that his company had no future in smartphones, which were losing hundreds of millions of dollars a quarter.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of lose

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For The Times) In the other new study, Taylor and his colleagues looked along the banks of rivers running through the cities of Bakersfield and Coalinga.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Later in the show, The Sun’s Matt Weyrich runs through the biggest news and notes from the Orioles’ final week of the regular season, including Jackson Holliday undergoing wrist surgery.

— Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026

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