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
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative
Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Food waste contributes 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the United States is the world’s biggest waster.
—Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
The biggest water waster, though, is cleaning during installation and use.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2014
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative
Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Food waste contributes 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the United States is the world’s biggest waster.
—Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
The biggest water waster, though, is cleaning during installation and use.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waster
Noun
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Delery ruminates on her wastrel youth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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He was raised on Chicago’s North Side by a wastrel father and a mother who struggled to put food on their table.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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These restrictions include spendthrift provisions in trust.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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The split screen of Bezos and his spendthrift wife, Lauren Sánchez, frolicking everywhere — including Paris Fashion Week — while the tech mogul defiles the crown jewel nurtured by Ben Bradlee and Kay Graham is sickening.—
Maureen Dowd,
Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Sephora’s core loyalty program, Beauty Insider and soon after VIB for the top spenders, launched in 2007.—
Jenny B. Fine,
Footwear News,
8 May 2026
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Uber, a perennial, prolific political spender, seeks to kneecap a longtime foe, the Consumer Attorneys of California, through a measure that would limit the fees attorneys can collect in car crash cases.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Twenty-six James Bond films (the 25 Eon joints, plus the prodigal Never Say Never Again) are coming to Netflix this month.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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Secrets are revealed, prodigals return, intolerances surface and family bonds are tested.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Waster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waster. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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