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Squander cash on account of what bookie offers? Then stop!
Answer for the clue "Squander cash on account of what bookie offers? Then stop! ", 9 letters:
overspend
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Word definitions for overspend in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES overspend your budget ▪ The Metropolitan Police has overspent its budget by £70 million. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Too many people overspend during the holidays. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Know how to overspend it to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the amount by which someone or something is overspent vb. To spend too much money; especially, to spend more than one earns.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. spend more than available of (a budget, for example) [ant: underspend ] spend at a high rate [ant: underspend ] [also: overspent ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "to wear out," from over- + spend . Meaning "to spend more than is necessary" is attested from 1857. Related: Overspent ; overspending .
Usage examples of overspend.
That was the fish that all the combines were after, and it was the reason we would all overspend lavishly on this phase.
NASA has overspent its allowance three times in the past two years and crawled back to the President with its tail between its legs and asked for more money to fix its mistakes.
With Sexton trailing badly in the primary polls and his message of government overspending falling on deaf ears, Gabrielle Ashe wrote him a note suggesting a radical new campaign angle.
After four years of overspending, thanks in part to the 1992 riots and a string of natural disasters, the county found its creditors unwilling to lend it any more money.
Given his penchant for gross overspending, his loyalty could all too easily be bought by an enemy, and Mara dared not leave such a threat unattended on her southern border.
She told the senator he should attack NASA's huge budget overruns and continued White House bailouts as the quintessential example of President Herney's careless overspending.
The space agency's recent string of failed missions and gargantuan budget overruns had earned NASA the dubious honor of becoming Sexton's unofficial poster child against big government overspending and inefficiency.
She hadn’t overspent an allowance since she was nine and bought all that candy for visiting cousins.