squanderation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of squandering; the state or quality of being squandered; dissipation; wastefulness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Had Corporal Jones produced his orders early on, we all might have been spared a lamentable squanderation of much-needed time."
- "The Democrats make quite outrageous demands for still greater squanderation of farm surpluses."
- "Only the unions, that is, and the federal tax authorities who have a vested interest in national squanderation."
- "This inflation is the direct and inevitable result of the squanderation policy that has been in effect for the past nine years and that has brought us to the brink of war with the greatest national indebtedness of any country, any where, at any time."
- "A policy of squanderation now will revive inflation without curing recession."
- "Pure squanderation of the cannon and unnecessarily flattening to the skeet."
Etymology
From squander + -ation.