Definition of Squander

Squander

To scatter; to disperse.

To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.

To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

To wander at random; to scatter.

The act of squandering; waste.

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Squander Quotations

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
Anna Julia Cooper

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
Jay Weatherill

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
Bennie Thompson

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
Christine Gregoire

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
John Breaux

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
Sebastian Coe

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.
Dennis Moore

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Squander Translations

squander in French is gaspillons, gaspillez, gaspillent
squander in German is verschleudere, verschleudern, verschwenden
squander in Latin is perdo, comedo comedi comesum
squander in Spanish is gastar, malgastar

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