| 单词 | spender |
| 释义 | spender (once / 25807 pages) n WORD FAMILY spender: spenders+/misspend: misspending, misspends, misspent/overspend: overspending, overspends, overspent/spend: misspend, overspend, spendable, spender, spending, spends, underspend/spending: spendings USAGE EXAMPLESIn addition to larger rooms or softer sheets, big spenders want to be coddled nowadays. New York Times(Apr 23, 2016) The No. 2 spender was Amazon, with 54 lobbyists and $8.6 million spent lobbying on issues including trade, taxes, immigration and drone regulations. Wall Street Journal(Dec 12, 2016) Q: I’m pretty frugal, but my partner is a big spender. Seattle Times(Dec 06, 2016) 1n someone who spends money to purchase goods or services Syn|Hyper disburser, expender client, customer someone who pays for goods or services 2n someone who spends money prodigally Syn|Hypo|Hyper scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift big spender, high roller one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment prodigal, profligate, squanderer a recklessly extravagant consumer Spender (once / 57656 pages) n WORD FAMILY Spender: Spenders USAGE EXAMPLESAmong his teachers was the British writer Christopher Isherwood, who occasionally brought in his friends W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. New York Times(May 10, 2016) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol. The Guardian(Apr 08, 2016) The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ Washington Post(Apr 06, 2016) n English poet and critic (1909-1995) Syn|Exp Sir Stephen Harold Spender, Stephen Spender literary critic a critic of literature poeta writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) |
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