Squander means to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage in a reckless and foolish manner.
Squander artinya memboroskan atau membuang-buang uang atau stok persediaan, atau membuang-buang kesempatan dengan ceroboh atau perilaku bodoh.
- They’ll quite happily squander a whole year’s savings on two weeks in the sun.
- Ireland squandered several chances, including a penalty that cost them the game.
- entrepreneurs squander their profits on expensive cars
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mengembara
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wander, roam, rogue, stray, range, squander
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memboroskan
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waste, squander, throw away, burn, misspend, slather
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melindangkan
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run through, squander
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menghabiskan dgn sia-sia
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squander
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waste, extravagance, dissipation, profligacy, prodigality, squander
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entrepreneurs squander their profits on expensive cars
- entrepreneurs squander their profits on expensive cars
- Continuing their protest tomorrow will only squander what dwindling public support they have left.
- Today’s business environment makes it impossible for organizations to afford to squander any resources.
- They always give away too many silly goals and squander too many easy chances.
- The state of the health services and the plight of many of our old people are just two reasons why we cannot afford to squander money on another stadium.
- Bolton boss Sam Allardyce could not hide his frustration at seeing his side squander a lead yet again.
- Clearly, a failure of vision at this moment would squander that opportunity.
- But what we must do, above all else, is not squander the opportunities we have.
- Yet, they squandered these opportunities by not working hard enough.
- During his time as governor, the enemies were student protesters who, Reagan argued, were squandering the opportunities hard-working taxpayers so kindly provided.
- The 34-year-old said she claimed the cash because her husband, who was taking home £20,000 a year, was squandering the money on drugs.
- He squandered the money brought in by the sale of Emile Heskey and Neil Lennon on over-priced under-achievers.
- But the fact that your son is a squanderer and spendthrift does not prevent his inheritance from you.
- He says too much tax revenue is being squandered on bureaucracy and inefficiency.
- I know I am stern with her, but I do not want her to be a squanderer .
- Schools, he insists, have squandered money that would have been better spent on teachers and books.
- Now, the police have caught him, and found that he had squandered almost all the money.
- Mr Yeo warned the whole event was in danger of becoming bogged down in costly bureaucracy, and that the Government was in danger of squandering a valuable opportunity to promote Britain.
- The British public is tired of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money being squandered on schemes that are scrapped after only a few years.
- It was hard not to feel some sympathy for his opponent, who must have been kicking himself afterwards having squandered a two-set lead.
- He should understand that hard-working British taxpayers do not want him squandering our tax money overseas when it could be used to help British people.
- Economizers will be rewarded, squanderers will pay.
- A washed-out match may present the Windies with their best chance of avoiding another defeat after squandering a terrific opportunity at St George’s Park.
- It is sad that we have squandered the opportunity with the ending of the Cold War.
- Trust and integrity are precious resources easily squandered, and hard to regain.
- With the defeat in Barbados, the unpredictable Pakistan side squandered the opportunity of winning their first-ever Test series.
- There’s so much to do in Vegas that squandering your money at the tables seems like a waste.
- He squandered a real opportunity to do something about homelessness and hunger.
- Horlock then squandered three chances inside four minutes.
- I have budgeted successfully since I was a student and have never squandered money.
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