Definition of Squandermania

1. Noun. Prodigious squandering (usually by a government).

Generic synonyms: Squandering
Category relationships: Administration, Governance, Governing, Government, Government Activity

Definition of Squandermania

1. Noun. excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squandermania

squamously
squamozygomatic
squamula
squamulae
squamulas
squamulate
squamule
squamules
squamulose
squander
squandered
squanderer
squanderers
squandering
squanderingly
squandermania (current term)
squanders
squaraine
squaraines
squarate
square
square(a)
square(p)
square-bashing
square-built
square-dance
square-dance music
square-eyed
square-pushing
square-rigged

Literary usage of Squandermania

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Full Up and Fed Up: The Worker's Mind in Crowded Britain by Whiting Williams (1921)
"Anyway, it lessens the tendency to homesickness to see all the papers here excited about the same old American items of the government's "squandermania"; ..."

2. Journal of the Institute of Bankers by Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) (1921)
"I am very " specialist in squandermania,' and in that quality I perhaps " greatly encouraged, however, by the charming observations of " my friend Mr. ..."

3. The Federal Reserve Monster by Wallace Campbell, Sam H. Clark (1922)
"There is nothing in Government annals or in corporate prodigality private or public to anywhere approximate the absolute squandermania of Federal. ..."

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