to throw about money about

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• throw your money around — INFORMAL DISAPPROVING ► to spend a lot of money, especially in a way that shows people you are not worried about money: »Despite the biggest recession in over a decade, city professionals still seem to have plenty of money to throw around. Main… …   Financial and business terms

• throw your money around — informal phrase to spend a lot of money on things that you do not need Thesaurus: to spend or to pay moneysynonym Main entry: money * * * throw your ˈmoney about/around idiom ( …   Useful english dictionary

• throw your money about — throw your ˈmoney about/around idiom (informal) to spend money in a careless and obvious way Main entry: ↑moneyidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• throw about — intransitive verb : to go in a different direction : tack * * * throw about or throw around 1. To spend (money) extravagantly or recklessly 2. To throw carelessly in different directions 3. (throw about) to cast about or try expedients (Spenser)… …   Useful english dictionary

• throw about money — waste money, squander money …   English contemporary dictionary

• throw — [θrəʊ ǁ θroʊ] verb threw PASTTENSE [θruː] thrown PASTPART [θrəʊn ǁ θroʊn] [transitive] 1. throw money at to try to solve a problem by spending a lot of money, without really thinking about the problem: • There is no point throwing money at the… …   Financial and business terms

• throw around — throw about or throw around 1. To spend (money) extravagantly or recklessly 2. To throw carelessly in different directions 3. (throw about) to cast about or try expedients (Spenser) • • • Main Entry: ↑throw …   Useful english dictionary

• throw — [[t]θro͟ʊ[/t]] ♦♦ throws, throwing, threw, thrown 1) VERB When you throw an object that you are holding, you move your hand or arm quickly and let go of the object, so that it moves through the air. [V n prep/adv] He spent hours throwing a tennis …   English dictionary

• throw — 1 verb past threw past participle thrown 1 THROW A BALL/STONE ETC (I, T) to make an object such as a ball move quickly through the air by moving your hand quickly: throw sth at/to/towards etc: Someone threw a stone at the car. | Cromartie throws… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• money — currency and coin that are guaranteed as legal tender by the government, a regulatory agency or bank. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary at the money out of the money in the money NYSE Euronext Glossary * * * money mon‧ey [ˈmʌni] noun …   Financial and business terms

• throw — throw1 [ θrou ] (past tense threw [ θru ] ; past participle thrown [ θroun ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 send object through air ▸ 2 put quickly & carelessly ▸ 3 move (someone/something) suddenly ▸ 4 be forced to go to place ▸ 5 look etc. in direction ▸ 6… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English