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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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.
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PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
The biggest water waster, though, is cleaning during installation and use.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2014
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PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
The biggest water waster, though, is cleaning during installation and use.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2014
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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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When measured by budget deficit – the gap between government spending and revenue – France is also among the most spendthrift in the European Union, according to Eurostat, the bloc’s statistics office.—
Ana Nicolaci da Costa,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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Their spending habits were that of a spendthrift, and there was only one parent really making any income.—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
10 Sep. 2025
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Poland has become one of the alliance's largest military spenders, Romania is increasing defense investments, and Finland and Sweden have added advanced military capabilities to NATO following their accession.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2026
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The Street is simply more apt to reward those spenders with the infrastructure in place to sell excess compute.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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“Waster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waster. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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