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waste of money

n. money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"

Usage examples of "waste of money".

The town decided it would be a waste of money to rebuild it, since by then everyone took the State highway anyway, and that pretty much put an end to the two-way traffic problem.

Crassus deemed eating anywhere outside his own home a waste of money.

I don't want to kill no nigger, on account of it's a waste of money.

And as for the colonization program, many are saying it is a waste of money, when war is erupting here on Earth.