spending spree

Noun

Meaning

a brief period of extravagant spending

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

shopping spree spending buying spree consumer binge big spending budget overflow crazy expending fiscal drunken orgy foolish spending great expense high spending big expense big purchases big spending areas budgetary extravagance
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Antonyms

return income gain profit proceeds earnings
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Hypernyms

spree fling

Examples

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure. Geoff Davis

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment. Peter Blair Henry

Close letter words and terms

spending money freely spending power spending resources ecklessly spending the rest of your life spending time in spending your life