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squandermania

noun

Etymology

From squander + -mania.

  1. inherited from *wandarōn✻ — “to wander”
  2. inherited from wandrian — “to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”
  3. inherited from wandren
  4. compounded as squander — “scatter + wander”
  5. suffixed as squandermania — “squander + mania”

Definitions

  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.

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