What is the meaning of squandering?

noun

  • Spending resources lavishly and wastefully.
    • usage: "more wasteful than the squandering of time"

verb

  • Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.
    • usage: "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
  • Spend extravagantly.
    • usage: "waste not, want not"
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