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"spendthrift" Definitions
  1. spending too much money, or wasting money

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They are generally friendly to business, their spendthrift populism aside.
His spendthrift lifestyle was actually aided by the workplace itself.
Spendthrift Sam spends all his money living the high life.
To maintain their bond with "the people", populists were often spendthrift.
That certainly describes the spendthrift recklessness of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.
One miser and one spendthrift will have a tough time agreeing.
It also faces pressure from cash-strapped (and often spendthrift) regional governments.
In Sri Lanka, the opposition united to beat a spendthrift, vicious autocrat.
In "Middlemarch" George Eliot makes the silly, spendthrift Rosamond Vincy a fan.
This was an alleged "third way" between heartless conservatism and spendthrift liberalism.
") and in the North ("the Commission is failing to rein in spendthrift Southerners!
That ought to be a salutary warning to Latin America's more spendthrift politicians.
Bond traders were supposed to act as "vigilantes", keeping spendthrift governments in check.
They masked that wariness with breezy jabs at his spendthrift candidacy and height.
Republicans derided the much more modest Obamacare as spendthrift socialisation of American health care.
But love is laziness, the gift of each other's time, to spendthrift or invest.
Facebook built the most popular social network on the backs of spendthrift college kids.
"A spendthrift spouse married to a saver typically creates relationship-destroying issues," he wrote.
Populist regimes are often corrupt and spendthrift, and usually fail to make people better off.
For an individual in China, it is easy to fall into debt without being spendthrift.
The previous financial woes of Jacob Zuma, South Africa's spendthrift president, have been well documented.
His first big task will be to deal with the legacy of Rio's spendthrift era.
Rather, they were blamed on the choices of local residents, portrayed as spendthrift and lazy.
Iacocca never forgave Ford, and he described his former boss as a spendthrift and dictator.
The Warren proposal hits the frugal executive hard but leaves the spendthrift without a scratch.
And a Republican governor can thunder against spendthrift lawmakers while benefiting from their generous budgets.
But legal action by the Justice Department has brought an end to Mr. Obiang's spendthrift ways.
The sultan is an autocrat (and a spendthrift), but he affects an enthusiasm for the arts.
Will the spendthrift convince the virtuous Dona So-and-So that he has mended his ways?
And her spendthrift economic policies may appeal to voters whose jobs and personal finances are precarious.
These include two other Latin American governments, with spendthrift Venezuela far outstripping the field (see chart).
It even could be seen as a positive sign that he has abandoned his spendthrift ways.
Kim's father was mistaken if he hoped that she would help curb his son's spendthrift ways.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a spendthrift populist ex-president, could unseat him, a prospect that scares investors.
Tensions can't help but grow if one spouse is extraordinarily frugal while the other is a spendthrift.
"If a close relationship was a spendthrift, they limited how much time they spent with those individuals."
US consumers were not very spendthrift in the first quarter, but that spending could pick up this quarter.
If Congress throws Puerto Rico a lifeline, the theory goes, spendthrift places like Illinois will soon request one.
Additionally, a vote against the debt limit can give spendthrift members of Congress the appearance of fiscal responsibility.
That matters because tech firms are now so big and so spendthrift that a slowdown could damage the economy.
Kevin Spacey had originally starred as the film's leading character, real-life oil tycoon (and notorious spendthrift) J.P. Getty.
Not all contribute to their own campaigns, though, and few are as spendthrift as would-be governors of Illinois.
Europe's economic crisis was a stew with many ingredients, from spendthrift governments to inadequate safeguards in the banking system.
Large trade deficits encourage destructive public policy and they reflect policies that foster a spendthrift and debt-laden society.
That independence can, for example, provide a tax advantage or prevent a spendthrift beneficiary from plowing through an inheritance.
Prince Muhammad has reined in spendthrift princes and neutered the religious police, who enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
His powerful ministry, which drove German policy during the euro crisis, has suspicion of spendthrift foreigners coursing through its corridors.
However, there are times where it makes sense to defer making purchases, and be a spendthrift in any given year.
He is also, according to a biography by Tom Bower, obsessive, mean-minded, self-pitying and spendthrift (with public money).
Ms Fernández, a spendthrift former president, had been widely expected to run for the presidency again, a prospect that frightened investors.
As in Catalonia, the Italian votes reflect the impatience of rich northerners with poor southerners, whom they consider corrupt and spendthrift.
The prospect of an election without Lula has cheered financial markets, which fear that he would resume Ms Rousseff's spendthrift policies.
With its spendthrift and clueless way, the Seattle City Council is showing all Americans the importance of voting in local elections.
Mr. Trump's frustration with spendthrift NATO allies in Europe will pale in comparison to what awaits him in the Middle East.
The Yang proposal hits the spendthrift hard and takes a smaller bite from the frugal person who has saved his money.
The Trump theory of international trade is like a man in deep debt who blames his creditors for his spendthrift behavior.
I decided to change my spendthrift ways, examining how often I turned to retail therapy whenever I felt sad or bored.
The surplus runners like Germany and The Netherlands will then come in to step up exports while criticizing the spendthrift southerners.
Because no effort was put into making her locally relevant, Barbie held none of her usual aspirational appeal, even for spendthrift Chinese.
If you're worried that your child is a spendthrift or that creditors may try to seize the money, consider a discretionary trust.
After years of being taunted by the Tories for the spendthrift antics of loony-left councils, it is payback time for Labour.
Investors can always sue spendthrift bosses, but even if they win, the money is awarded to the company, not the individual shareholders.
All in all, the otherwise spendthrift Trump campaign spent about $70 million on Facebook through Election Day, according to the Washington Post.
The economy is one reason to care, since spendthrift retirees are stockpiling growing sums of capital and holding back consumer spending growth.
Gurus tell you to stop looking at Instagram, stay off Facebook, fire all your nonfrugal friends and disown your spendthrift family members.
Once the papers are signed, the innocent bride becomes a bullying, shrewish spendthrift, a transition that is nicely handled by Ms. Buratto.
State Senator Chris McDaniel, with Tea Party support, argued that Mr. Cochran was a Washington spendthrift and had lost touch with Mississippians.
The last version was rejected as illegally spendthrift, but the new budget is largely unchanged and likely to be rejected as well.
He was deposed after months of political unrest directed at his administration, which was accused of being spendthrift and out of touch.
Some have left not because the president is spendthrift, but because he has slashed ministries' budgets to make room for his pet projects.
Spendthrift competitors have increased the cost of doing business and economic sloppiness (bad unit economics and insane marketing spends) has become the norm.
He claimed he'd been cuckolded by Winnie -- who famously cheated while he was in prison for 27 years -- and called her a spendthrift.
Despite its assistance to Lucasfilm, Galactica's TV reign at the top of sci-fi would not be troubled by its old spendthrift nemesis.
The have a slathered-on aesthetic that reads to me as spendthrift with materials that are not, in and of themselves, particularly meaningful.
And embedded in a texture of spendthrift immensity — stacked with extra tubas, contrabassoons, bass clarinets and 24 timpani — individual voices sound frightfully naked.
If you're nervous that holding your phone next to the scanner to complete a transaction could turn you into a spendthrift, don't partake.
TMG fired back shortly afterwards, labeling the actor a hopeless spendthrift who squandered millions on extravagances like fine wine and art against their advice.
Italy, also hit in the past week by concern that a potentially spendthrift coalition government was taking shape in Rome, looked the most vulnerable.
Spendthrift consumers in deficit countries suddenly found themselves squeezed by joblessness and the evaporation of easy credit: that led to a collapse in imports.
To the ire of many Tokyoites, Mr Masuzoe's spendthrift ways will now trigger another city election this summer, projected to cost around ¥5 billion.
Depp knows that these two critical witnesses will fully support TMG's case and reveal Depp for the extraordinary liar and spendthrift that he is.
Some have left not because the president is a spendthrift, but because he has slashed spending by ministries to make room for his pet projects.
Another candidate is Argentina, where President Mauricio Macri is enacting painful reforms to restore fiscal sobriety after years of spendthrift populism under the Kirchner family.
The price would cause the most spendthrift American or European to blanch: 68,19803 Cuban convertible pesos (or CUC, each of which is worth a dollar).
They were there getting ready for Mark, regardless of who he would turn out to be—rich or poor, spendthrift or provident, wise or foolish.
At least until recently, Germans, Dutch and others have balked at providing debt relief to countries, like Italy, that they regard as spendthrift and undisciplined.
The restructuring at MedMen comes as some of the largest businesses in cannabis resolve to shed excess weight, narrow their focus, and be less spendthrift.
Nixing deductibility "threatens the political livelihood of spendthrift lawmakers across the nation," Mr. Bartlett exulted at the time in an article for the Heritage Foundation.
Sinan rails against the fact that his complacent and spendthrift father does not meet the needs of the family yet is still considered its rightful patriarch.
Greeks have suffered years of austerity brought on by a debilitating financial crisis that many blame on political corruption, a spendthrift state and endemic tax evasion.
They succeeded in making Manafort look like a spendthrift gallivanting around the world in his $15,000 ostrich jacket while shifting money from 15 unreported foreign accounts.
Schultz argues that America's political instability is driven by the government's lack of fiscal discipline (just as his family's instability was driven by his spendthrift father).
Yet spendthrift states with ever-growing appetites for more resources and busybody state regulators increasingly push the envelope in order to chip away at the Quill decision.
And despite his appetite for luxury, he maintains a private jail for "errant princes and spendthrift princesses who neglect to pay their bills," according to Time Magazine.
The result, argues Ehtisham Ahmad of the London School of Economics, is that aid money plays the role resource riches do in some other countries, encouraging spendthrift government.
The case has hit a nerve in Greece, slowly emerging from a debt crisis that was blamed by many on a corrupt political elite and a spendthrift state.
In Europe's north the idea of relaxing austerity came to be seen by many voters as a way of using their money to bail out the spendthrift south.
At the start of summer in New York, the spendthrift Europhile, unable to afford a transatlantic voyage, can reach, on foot, several airy patios with echoes of Provence.
As queen, she was called "l'Autrichienne," viewed with suspicion befitting a foreign consort and criticized as a spendthrift and as indifferent to the plight of the French people.
Rome narrowly avoided an EU disciplinary procedure over its spendthrift policies last December, striking a "borderline" deal with the Commission which the EU executive said was "not ideal".
How much they and others will spend over the Lunar New year remains to be seen, and traders are bracing for customers being picky where they once were spendthrift.
In fact, Mr Mugabe is under a form of house arrest and the army is rounding up leading politicians aligned to a faction associated with his spendthrift wife, Grace.
Britain's national debt has been a key bone of political contention, used to clobber Labour in the 2015 general election as a spendthrift party in denial of economic realities.
Some people had been a lot wiser with their money than I had—I was probably a bit more spendthrift and I couldn't really see a future in it.
It's only the latest volley in the battle between millionaires and millennials, and one in which avocados have becoming an unwitting proxy for the spendthrift ways of the youth.
Zimbabwe adopted the US dollar as its official currency after the spendthrift regime of President Robert Mugabe printed so many of its own notes that it caused hyperinflation in 2008.
The euro has unwound all of its rally against the Swiss franc since the Italian elections as the prospect of a spendthrift coalition government taking shape in Rome unnerves investors.
Alas, forewarned is not always forearmed, and many people approaching retirement look back regretfully — with emptier pockets than they'd like — at their spendthrift 303s, 30s and even 40s or beyond.
They provide our culture's most persuasive script for what I call "capitalist catechism": narrating that the source of success is not some preexisting privilege of genetic blessings or Steinbrennerian spendthrift.
He's also eager to expand beyond the Libertarian community, saying that his products are on the verge of being adopted by customers that would dwarf the spendthrift third-party convention.
When George W. Bush's tax cuts were introduced—despite opposition from more Republican congressmen than have dared speak against Mr Trump's more spendthrift proposals—it was half its current level.
I'd be upset if the government gave handouts to my spendthrift, debt-ridden fellow citizens who took on more debt than they could handle and are now complaining about it.
The announcement, which came after coalition officials spent weeks soothing earlier fears of a spendthrift budget, fuelled a surge in bond yields, which had gradually eased over the summer months.
Chinese families are nowhere near the borrowing levels of spendthrift Americans, whose household debt is equal to more than three-quarters of the annual economic output of the United States.
The United States is like an aging rich uncle who has for too long financed his spendthrift nieces and nephews, but that suddenly recognizes that his bank account is dwindling.
Ms Koike's lack of a clear ideology is no handicap: the LDP itself, after all, flirted with austerity under Mr Koizumi but now runs one of the world's most spendthrift governments.
For that same reason, Uncle Sam is looking like a spendthrift who was taken in by loans at teaser interest rates that are just about to start adjusting upward, big time.
The case has struck a nerve in Greece as it slowly emerges from a debt crisis that many blamed on a corrupt political elite and a spendthrift state that ballooned deficits.
Even in spendthrift Japan, the recovery plan of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, is threatened by his determination to raise the rate of consumption tax in order to reduce the deficit.
Mr Zhu argues that China has to make an example of spendthrift companies and local governments, letting them default or even go bust to get investors to take market forces seriously.
The shaky island government, spendthrift in the past, will have to convince Washington that it is reform-minded, as with the recent resignation of the head of the dysfunctional power authority.
But this carefree, spendthrift attitude does not chime with Mr Trump's plan, which was penned by Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro, two of his economic advisers, and released shortly before the election.
High-saving nations such as China may become more spendthrift and reduce the global savings pool and European governments may increase borrowing to pay for the rising costs of their entitlement programs.
Republicans have devoted years to attacking Mr. Obama as a debt-expanding spendthrift, even as the deficit has declined by more than two-thirds as a share of the economy since 2009.
But thankfully, Colette doesn't stay there for long, and neither does Colette herself, who quickly becomes disillusioned with her husband's philandering and spendthrift ways, and seeks other avenues to come into her own.
Outraged by do-nothing summits in Brussels, he scolded the spendthrift Eurocrats for squandering public money and precious time on matters where a simple SMS could have taken care of their trivial agenda.
Whether it's used in reference to the spendthrift Congressional committees or simply to describe the expenditure of taxpayer funds, it might as well be a four-letter word in the limited-government movement.
WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment and more like the ultimate spendthrift whodunit.
Though he was instantly bored by the club's lascivious sights, he knew for sure that he'd found the perfect place for a young black man to fully and freely indulge his spendthrift tendencies.
When the euro was created, the Germans insisted that it be modelled on the mighty Deutschmark and refused to entertain a "transfer union" channelling resources from Europe's austere north to its allegedly spendthrift south.
First, a catalyst: nationalist Euroscepticism is an expression of fury at an establishment that, in straitened times, appears to do too much for spendthrift southern Europeans and migrants, and too little for local strivers.
Jeanne learns that her husband is both miserly and chronically unfaithful, and her only son proves to be a spendthrift wastrel who depletes the family fortune, leaving her in near-poverty toward the end.
Two weeks after Donald J. Trump swept to victory, investors from around the world are betting that his promises of tax cuts, fewer regulations and a spendthrift federal government can recharge the American economy.
LONDON (Reuters) - The prospect of a more spendthrift government in Italy, already one of the euro zone's most indebted economies, has had only a mild impact on Italian government bonds — leaving many market pundits puzzled.
The sum surprised even her team, which had expected that the notoriously spendthrift governor would not empty so much of his war chest on a primary that no polls had ever shown as particularly close.
That power of contemporary art lets us off the hook, lets us play where there is serious work to be done and money to be made, makes us spendthrift and silly, implausible, immortal, and free.
The euro has been weakened by the dollar's rally and by widening bond spreads between Italian and German debt, as markets grappled with the prospects of a spendthrift coalition government in Rome comprising the two parties.
It's that we shouldn't be using the iPhone as shorthand for dumb, spendthrift purchases, any more than we'd shame someone for not picking the cheapest possible car when a slightly more expensive model fit their needs.
But it faced hard choices; more generous terms from the fund might have helped the citizens of beleaguered economies, but also given spendthrift governments licence to misbehave—or put support for the IMF itself at risk.
Lisa Marie Presley is about to file a lawsuit against her former financial managers, claiming they squandered more than $100 million over 10 years, but the company says Lisa Marie is broke because she's a spendthrift.
LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - The prospect of a more spendthrift government in Italy, already one of the euro zone's most indebted economies, has had only a mild impact on Italian government bonds — leaving many market pundits puzzled.
While the opposition called these spendthrift policies that could not be afforded, the economy is thriving, and the government has lowered both the budget deficit and unemployment (with no small amount of help from European Union subsidies).
Her video installation "Black Friday" was shown at the Whitney Museum last year — a hallucinatory, drone-videoed fugue about shopping malls, the 21st-century equivalent of Coleridge's "caverns measureless to man," where we are all spendthrift Kubla Khans.
It also gave investors an incentive to get out of Italian assets, which have already been rattled by the prospect of a spendthrift coalition government in Rome comprising the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League.
The country's public debt stands at 2.3 trillion euros, or 130 percent of the country's GDP, which far exceeds EU limits; authorities in Brussels fear that Italy's spendthrift budget will cause the country to default on its loans.
"Kate, in particular, as our future queen has to tread this tightrope very carefully, and she really needs to show that she does support British industry but also that she's frugal, that's she's not a spendthrift," Maclaran says.
My dad was both a journalist, meaning he ignored many conventional boundaries and would call artists directly to arrange a visit, and a spendthrift, in that he would just as soon avoid paying the middleman gallery its tithe.
She was first accused of being a vacuous spendthrift interested chiefly in renovating and buying new china for the White House, lavish entertaining, her designer wardrobe and the like, then portrayed as a cunning manipulator of policy and people.
She was first accused of being a vacuous spendthrift interested chiefly in renovating and buying new china for the White House, lavish entertaining, her designer wardrobe, and the like, then portrayed as a cunning manipulator of policy and people.
If a central bank is beholden to the government then spendthrift politicians might become emboldened and rack up enormous debts, knowing that should markets lose faith, a dutiful central bank will step in and print money to cover the fiscal shortfall.
But Mr Janus, who thinks AFSCME has contributed to his state's "budget and pension crisis" by backing spendthrift candidates and pushing for fiscally irresponsible contracts, says "the union's voice is not my voice" and "the union's fight is not my fight".
And they say they have a major advantage over their spendthrift peers in the US.Lawrence Leuschner, the cofounder and CEO of the Berlin-based scooter startup Tier, thinks he can beat out the competition because the firm is more efficient.
After the 2009 scandal, he remained in office through 2011, and then won a 2013 special election for a seat in Congress -- returning to the job he held in the 1990s and remaking himself as a spendthrift House Freedom Caucus member.
The fur coat (priced at $58,000, approximately a cool million dollars today) that falls from heaven on the head of Mary (Jean Arthur) belongs to the spendthrift wife of a blustering tycoon known as the Bull of Broad Street (Edward Arnold).
Pete Buttigieg, likely the early delegate leader in the Democratic primary, is "portraying himself as the biggest fiscal hawk in the presidential field and taking a shot at chief New Hampshire rival Bernie Sanders for being too spendthrift," NBC News's Sahil Kapur writes.
How else to explain a posture of aggressive antipathy to borrowing during Democratic presidencies (even threatening to push America into default on its debt to extract spending cuts from Mr Obama), coupled with a spendthrift attitude to the public purse when in power?
That Luiz — a player who, more than most, this summer came to symbolize English football's spendthrift culture, its obsession with acquisition, its buying for the sake of buying — still finished on the losing side, though, felt instructive, given the identity of Chelsea's conqueror.
German voters want politicians to address the more than one million immigrants that have flooded into Germany, the mass New Year's rapes at the Cologne train station, terrorist attacks in Berlin, Ansbach and Wuerzburg, soaring crime rates and bailouts of spendthrift Greece.
In a way, that device encapsulates the position of Spain within the European phone market: it's a slightly less spendthrift place than its wealthier neighbors to the north, and so it provides more opportunity for smaller companies and more budget-friendly models to flourish.
But Google will now also be responsible for its own phone lineup, aiming to secure the premium Android tier and attract what it's missing: more spendthrift mobile users that would both spur development of Android apps and raise the value of Google's core advertising business.
"Consumers are easing off their spendthrift ways from the second quarter and are adopting more prudent attitudes, perhaps still nervous over trade tensions and the slowing of hiring -though that still remains robust," said Robert Frick, corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union in Vienna, Virginia.
She seems doomed to spend her life waiting on her buffoonish, appearance-obsessed father and spendthrift elder (and also unmarried) sister, with perhaps the occasional dubious reprieve in the form of a visit to her married younger sister's home to look after her nieces and nephews.
The news sparked a sharp sell-off in Spanish bonds and stocks, and provided investors with a fresh incentive to get out of Italian assets, which have been rattled by the prospect of a spendthrift coalition government comprising the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League.
A giveaway of his guilt came when one of the C.I.A. officers, speaking to Ames's "spendthrift" wife, learned that the Ameses were planning to do all the window treatments of their new home at once, instead of having them done one at a time, like normal C.I.A. agents.
The measures are meant to stop money gushing out of the country amid a run on the peso, which has tumbled as investors fret that October's presidential election will be won by a ticket that includes Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a former president whose spendthrift policies ruined the economy.
This notion of the I.M.F. as an overstaffed body of meddling economists too eager to bail out the next spendthrift government to come knocking on its door — be it South Korea, Brazil, Argentina or, ultimately, Greece — became a recurring theme for Mr. Lerrick in his critiques over the years.
Then, when crisis struck, the leaders of rich countries (most notably Germany) chose to save their banks, which had lent money to Greece, while presenting the issue as a moral failure on the part of the spendthrift Greeks — who, after great sacrifices, are now suffering under greater debt than before.
Within the euro zone, a rift between austerity-hit southern states on the one hand and Germany and its rich northern allies blew up this week when the Dutch chair of the zone's finance ministers appeared to liken the debtors to a spendthrift who blew his cash on "booze and women".
The "euro crisis" is often framed as a story of spendthrift governments run amok, but the real sources of the trouble were underlying faults in the euro system and the creation of too much credit by private-sector banks—the same phenomenon that led to the subprime-debt crisis in the United States.
Now that they are on the cusp of reclaiming control of the presidency, Republicans are readying a quick return to the spendthrift days of the George W. Bush administration, but when a Democrat is next elected president, they will toggle right back to austerity politics without bothering to justify the obvious lack of underlying principle.
In "Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic" (Adlard Coles/Bloomsbury $27), Sam Jefferson tacks across post-Civil War history to report on the sailing competition among three spendthrift New Yorkers — Bennett, Pierre Lorillard and George Osgood — goaded by Leonard Jerome, a financier best known as a grandfather of Winston Churchill.
Word of the Day noun: someone who spends money prodigally adjective: recklessly wasteful _________ The word spendthrift has appeared in 13 New York Times articles in the past year, including on April 17 in "The Billionaire Who's Building a Davos of His Own" by Alessandra Stanley: Mr. Berggruen, 54, is an investor and art collector who was once known as the "homeless billionaire" because he lived in itinerant luxury in five-star hotels.

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