Noun
money spent for inadequate return
Source: WordNetTime 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