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squandermania

squandermania noun: excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project.

Noun

squandermania (uncountable)

  1. Excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project.
    • A third statement which appeared April 15 in a Communist Chinese newspaper "Red Guard" disclosed serious corruption, theft and squandermania among Communist cadres.1975 May 25, “Turmoil on mainland”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 20, Taipei, page 3

Origin of squandermania

From squander + -mania.

Questions about squandermania

What does squandermania mean?
Squandermania means excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project.
What part of speech is squandermania?
Squandermania is a noun.

Words near squandermania in the dictionary

  1. Squandergate
  2. squandering
  3. squanderingly
  4. squanderings
  5. squanderlust
  6. squandermania
  7. squandermaniac
  8. squandermaniacs
  9. squanders
  10. squandersome
  11. squanter-squash

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