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• n  someone who spends money prodigally
• s  recklessly wasteful

• Marking to newly-spendthrift single women .
• There are signs he may be curbing his spendthrift ways: in September, when the country was renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Mengistu opted for a cocktail party .
• Japanese women are smart and entrepreneurial, so why is so little effort made to harness their talents? Japan's Me Generation Marketing to Japan's newly spendthrift single women.

• spend-all
• spender
• scattergood
• extravagant
• prodigal
• profligate

News & Articles

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• People are now running from bonds. Running.
  The financial crisis upended a lot of things about the established order. Swaggering bankers were brought to their knees. Spendthrift Americans started saving—briefly. A decades long deregulatory fetish ...
  June 11, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Bob Hawke in Sydney Morning Herald
  In another couple years as industrialized countries' own debts - in places like Germany, Japan and the United States - get worse, they will become more reluctant to open up their wallets to spendthrift emerging markets, or at least countries they... Kenneth Rogoff http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rogoff&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFdUh3UE6-a2A3RGcFKXnwEtOGPSg NDTV.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://profit.ndtv.com/2009/12/01105347/After-Dubai-where-the-next-de.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFbGajQi3qW9HiZ1VBu_IAAhl9EPw Nov 30, 2009 93074 123615 spendthrift I thought (Rudd's) launch yesterday was magnificent," Mr Hawke told a gathering at Salisbury Bowls Club, on Brisbane's southside. "He hit the right spots. He wasn't going to try and match that spendthrift smorgasbord that was put out by...
• David Broder in Kaiser network.org
  Those "who go to http://www.perotcharts.com will find the Dallas billionaire waiting to challenge them on one of his favorite subjects -- the' ruin' he says America is courting with its spendthrift ways," Broder writes, adding, "Perot is not...