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waste of money

Noun

Meaning

money spent for inadequate return

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Time is waste of money. Oscar Wilde

I have told you before that Gladstone has shown much heart in this business. He has a strong aversion to the waste of money on our armaments. He has much more of our sympathies. He has more in common with you and me than any other man of his power in Britain. Richard Cobden

It is a waste of money to pay priests to frighten our children, and paralyze the intellect of women. Robert G. Ingersoll

Expensive clothes are a waste of money. Meryl Streep

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. Taylor Caldwell

New Labour's community development work was all private-sector driven, consultation-tinged regeneration that was done to poor people rather than being controlled by them. I found it, on the whole, a massive waste of money. Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

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