Meaning

2 senses
  1. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

    Verschwender, Verschwenderin, Prasser

    расточи́тельrastočítelʹ, мотmot, транжи́рtranžír

    someone who spends money prodigally

  2. (figuratively)Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Mary is a spendthrift when it comes to money.

  2. Tom is a spendthrift.

  3. The girl had grown up without any money and when she married she became a spendthrift.

    deDas Mädchen war ganz ohne Geld aufgewachsen, und nach ihrer Heirat wurde sie zur Verschwenderin. — Manfredo

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully:

Origin

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

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