squandering
1.prodigious squandering (usually by a government).
2.some showed no concern for the interests of the masses, squandering manpower and material resources at will;
3.Worse, we think those who pursue art and have no condo to show for it are squandering their lives.
4.the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes- Edith Wharton; reckless squandering of public funds.
5.If we are locked in to the managing by maps, we will waste many resources by wandering aimlessly or by squandering opportunity.
6.Working together we can strive to overcome barriers to inward investment without undermining the rights of workers or squandering precious environmental resources.
7.As these were a saving class, while the posterity of the feudal aristocracy were a squandering class, the former by degrees substituted themselves for the latter as the owners of a great proportion of the land.
8.An executive committee without a council behind it often acts without regard for the views of the masses, and there are instances everywhere of hesitation and compromise on the confiscation and redistribution of land, of squandering or embezzling funds, and of recoiling before the White forces or fighting only half-heartedly.
