to squander resources

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• squander — squan‧der [ˈskwɒndə ǁ ˈskwɑːndər] verb [transitive] to spend money or use your time carelessly on things that are not useful: • The bank squandered $500 million playing the U.S. bond market. squander something on something • He squandered the… …   Financial and business terms

• squander — [[t]skwɒ̱ndə(r)[/t]] squanders, squandering, squandered VERB If you squander money, resources, or opportunities, you waste them. [V n] Hooker didn t squander his money on flashy cars or other vices... [V n] He had squandered his chances to win …   English dictionary

• squander — squan·der || skwÉ‘ndÉ™(r) / skwÉ’n n. wasteful spending of money or other resources v. waste money or other resources, fritter away, misuse …   English contemporary dictionary

• squander — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, blow, budget, burn up, consume, cost, cost out, decrease, deplete, depreciate, digest, disburse, dissipate, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust …   Moby Thesaurus

• Latin America, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …   Universalium

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• Winner and Waster — (Wynnere and Wastour) (ca. 1352–1353)    Winner and Waster is a DREAM VISION poem of 503 extant lines, written in a Northwest Midland dialect of MIDDLE ENGLISH. The poem is a political ALLEGORY composed during the reign of King EDWARD III, who… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• frit´ter|er — frit|ter1 «FRIHT uhr», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to waste little by little: »to fritter away one s savings. He frittered away both time and energy reading worthless books. The allies…frittered away precious time in…disputes (H. G. Wells). 2. to cut or …   Useful english dictionary

• frit|ter — frit|ter1 «FRIHT uhr», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to waste little by little: »to fritter away one s savings. He frittered away both time and energy reading worthless books. The allies…frittered away precious time in…disputes (H. G. Wells). 2. to cut or …   Useful english dictionary

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• resource — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ abundant, considerable, enormous, great, large, major, rich, significant, substantial, vast ▪ …   Collocations dictionary