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squanderˈmania colloq.
[f. squander v. + -mania.]
An insane desire or obsession to spend money recklessly or to waste assets. Hence squanderˈmaniac a. and n.
1920Public Opinion 2 July 3/1 The public are deeply roused upon the Squandermania issue. 1921Glasgow Herald 2 Apr. 7 The burden imposed upon him [sc. the tax-payer] by a ‘Squandermaniac’ Government. 1922Public Opinion 10 Mar. 228/1 The real squandermaniac would be revealed in the man with an infinite capacity for standing at street corners. 1931Punch 4 Nov. 481/1 The triumph of Reason over Squandermania. 1933C. Mackenzie Water on Brain vii. 85 There cheek by jowl sat the squandermaniac and the suicidal junior clerk. 1956Sun (Baltimore) 14 June (ed. B) 16/2 They think that people who support the provision of some military aid to our allies are ‘soft’ and afflicted with ‘squandermania’. 1976Times 16 Aug. 11/5 Sheer ‘squander-mania’..has currently invaded our society. |