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spendocrat

spendocrat noun: a politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.

Noun

spendocrat (plural spendocrats)

  1. (attributive, derogatory, informal, sometimes) A politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.
    • While Washington "spendocrats," of both parties, have spent and wasted more than 100 billion dollars in so-called foreign aid, […]1963, Martin Dies, Martin Dies' Story, Bookmailer, page 17
    • Not AT&T, nor even our governmental spendocrats, can afford to toss satellites into space indefinitely and write them off when a faulty transistor or a coy contact puts them out of commission.1963, Telephone Engineer & Management, volume 67, page 47

Forms of spendocrat

pluralspendocrats

Origin of spendocrat

From spend + -o- + -crat.

Questions about spendocrat

What does spendocrat mean?
Spendocrat means a politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.
What part of speech is spendocrat?
Spendocrat is a noun.
What is the plural of spendocrat?
The plural of spendocrat is spendocrats.

Words near spendocrat in the dictionary

  1. spendings
  2. spendless
  3. Spendlove
  4. Spendloves
  5. spendocracy
  6. spendocrat
  7. spendocrats
  8. spends
  9. spends a penny
  10. spends good money after bad
  11. spends money like water

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