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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spender
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big eater/drinker/spender etc
▪ Des is a big gambler, you know.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The Government has become Britain's biggest spender on advertising.
▪ Other big spenders include personal social services and the police, each of which takes about a tenth.
high
▪ Britain would then become the third highest spender on international development.
▪ Oxford City Council has been a high spender since Labour got control.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compulsive overeater/gambler/spender/liar etc
▪ Characters are apparently motiveless, compulsive liars, who shy from eye contact.
▪ I imagine compulsive gamblers get started this way.
▪ Mel is a compulsive liar too, but I guess Steve is too self-obsessed to care.
▪ Most compulsive gamblers are not hugely successful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, white-collar spenders fear losing their jobs.
▪ Britain would then become the third highest spender on international development.
▪ By diverting purchasing power from private spenders to government, taxes free resources from private uses.
▪ Hence, we shall consider households first as income receivers and second as spenders.
▪ However, the most important spenders are clients who most frequently use London-based agencies.
▪ In effect, the government has been taking more resources from young savers and transferring them to spenders.
▪ In general the highest spending families live in London and the South East, and the lowest spenders live in the North.
▪ The self-supporting peasant was transformed into a spender of money, for all the things he needed were now in the shops.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spender

Spender \Spen"der\, n. One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

Wiktionary
spender

n. (context slang English) A person who spends money.

WordNet
Wikipedia
Spender

Spender is a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, created by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. Martin McKeand produced the first two series, broadcast on BBC One in early 1991 and 1992. A third and final series was shown in early 1993. A total of 20 episodes were produced, with one feature-length special, set and filmed in France.

Spender (disambiguation)

Spender was a BBC television drama between 1991 and 1993.

Spender may also refer to:

  • Spender (surname), list of people with the name
  • The Spender, 1913 American silent short romance film directed by Harry Solter
  • Big Spender, song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity
  • Big Spender (TV series), American reality television series on the A&E Network
Spender (surname)

Spender is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

  • Dale Spender (born 1943), Australian feminist and writer
  • Elizabeth Spender, English film actress
  • Emily Spender, English novelist
  • Humphrey Spender (1910–2005), British photographer, painter and designer
  • Jeffrey Spender (judge), Australian judge
  • Jérémy Spender (born 1982), French footballer
  • John Spender (born 1935), Australian politician and barrister
  • John Alfred Spender (1862–1942), British journalist and newspaper editor
  • Lillian Spender (1835–1895), English novelist
  • Michael Spender (1906–1945), English explorer
  • Nancy Spender (1909–2001), English painter
  • Natasha Spender (1919–2010), English pianist and author
  • Percy Spender (1897–1985), Australian politician, diplomat and jurist
  • Philip Spender (born 1943), English public-sector fundraiser
  • Simon Spender (born 1985), Welsh footballer
  • Stephen Spender (1909–1995), British poet, novelist and essayist
  • Wilfrid Spender (1876–1960), British army officer
  • Herbert Henry Spender-Clay (1875–1937), English soldier and Conservative Party politician
Fictional
  • C.G.B. Spender, fictional character in the American television series The X-Files
  • Cassandra Spender, fictional character in The X-Files
  • Freddie Spender, fictional detective in the British television series Spender
  • Jeffrey Spender, fictional character in The X-Files

Usage examples of "spender".

Sir Steven Runciman, Brenda Salkeld, John Sceats, Roger Senhouse, Stephen Spender, Oliver Stallybrass, Professor Gleb Struve, Julian Symons, F.

Despite his rhetoric to the contrary, Clinton had a history of being a taxer and spender.

Even under the highly doubtful assumption that Spender was telling the truth when he would later claim not to have known that he was being paid by the CIA, we would still be left with the question of why the CIA was willing to pay him in spite of the neutralist stance he took in The God That Failed and elsewhere.

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As he came across in her exuberant description, he was a happy-go-lucky sharpie with a heart full of larceny but without any vestige of a mean streak, a chipper quick-witted con man with a deck of cards in one hand and a stack of uranium stock in the other, a heavy drinker but not a sloppy one, a big spender and a good-time Charlie, a man whose sense of responsibility and need for security were about as well developed as that of the lilies of the field.

But the characteristic writers of the time, people like Auden and Spender and MacNeice, have been didactic, political writers, aesthetically conscious, of course, but more interested in subject-matter than in technique.

Spender and Isherwood standing by the broken torso of a bombed statue.

All branches of the US military, and the British Ministry of Defence chemical weapons establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire, are interested in neural mechanisms and the action of neurotransmitters for what they can reveal about actual and potential chemical weapons -and they are not small spenders.

Sir Steven Runciman, Brenda Salkeld, John Sceats, Roger Senhouse, Stephen Spender, Oliver Stallybrass, Professor Gleb Struve, Julian Symons, F.

The lowest spenders were regarded as social criminals, free-riding on the backs of others.

Which is wholly understandable when you see the people who come here, the Big Spenders from places like Denver and Dallas.

Poetry and the Microphone About a year ago I and a number of others were engaged in broadcasting literary programmes to India, and among other things we broadcast a good deal of verse by contemporary and near-contemporary English writers -- for example, Eliot, Herbert Read, Auden, Spender, Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, Alex Comfort, Robert Bridges, Edmund Blunden, D.

The final speaker, a very large woman with a pointed chin, announced that she was a codependent spender.

Toni turned back to the roulette table, making -it a point to squeeze up against the new big spender who'd taken Ernie's place.

He was a gregarious man of immense appetites, an excellent fisherman, a big spender, and a generous tipper.