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# spendthrift

«spendthrift» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who spends money fast and carelessly, until none…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (spendthrifts)

### meaning for a pupil

A spendthrift is a person who spends money fast and carelessly, until none is left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spendthrift/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a young man who wastes all his money and goods, so that he has nothing left in the end; a warning figure in tales

### examples

- A spendthrift spends all his money at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spendthrift/#x1)
- The young man was a great spendthrift and had run through all his money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spendthrift/#x2)
- Here a young spendthrift is warned in a dream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spendthrift/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spendthrift» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spendthrift/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.