squanderlustn.
U.S. slang.
A strong desire to spend money or to waste assets; also loosely = squandermania n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > insane desire to
squandermania1920
squanderlust1935
1935 Amer. Speech 10 155/1 Louis Ludlow, member of Congress and former Washington correspondent..is the author of America Go Bust, which ‘focuses attention on the bureaucratic squanderlust’ of our times.
1960 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 May 8/2 Politicians.., moved..by an any-year philosophy of squanderlust, lead the country down the road to economic trouble.
1977 Time 18 July 72/3 No longer the ultimate expression of corporate and personal squanderlust, the private plane is now a ubiquitous..means of air travel to smaller cities.
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