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SPENDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who spends money to purchase goods or services
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spender" is a kind of...):
client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)
Derivation:
spend (pay out)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who spends money prodigally
Synonyms:
scattergood; spend-all; spender; spendthrift
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("spender" is a kind of...):
prodigal; profligate; squanderer (a recklessly extravagant consumer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spender"):
big spender; high roller (one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment)
Derivation:
spend (spend completely)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English poet and critic (1909-1995)
Synonyms:
Sir Stephen Harold Spender; Spender; Stephen Spender
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
literary critic (a critic of literature)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
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