SQUANDERING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Spending resources lavishly and wastefully

Example:

more wasteful than the squandering of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("squandering" is a kind of...):

dissipation; waste; wastefulness (useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squandering"):

squandermania (prodigious squandering (usually by a government))

Derivation:

squander (spend extravagantly)

-ing form of the verb squander