What's the difference between overspender and spendthrift?
Overspender
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The unit, which includes lawyers, personnel managers and financial controllers, is the corporation's latest weapon in the battle to contain overspending within the BBC.
(2) That means that in total 65 hospital trusts will have run up an overspend this year, a big increase on 2012-13.
(3) Transparency tears down the hiding places for sleaze, overspending and corruption.
(4) Sir Michael Lyons has written an open letter to Thompson following today's National Audit Office report into the BBC's spending on three major projects , cataloguing a list of delays and overspends, particularly on Broadcasting House in central London.
(5) A national drive among UMP supporters to avert a financial crisis and repay the €11m (£9.3m) overspend on Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 campaign raised the money in just two months.
(6) The Association of Directors and Adult Social Services (Adass) has forecast that local councils will overspend almost £500m in adult social care as the crisis deepens.
(7) Every MK architect tells stories of heroic overspending.
(8) Adonis added: "The provision for contingencies is now 50% of the £28bn cost – straightforward evidence of very poor project management on the part of HS2 and ministers, and an open invitation to massive overspending and to very lax cost control."
(9) He said use of agency staff had meant “big overspending” by some hospitals which had needed to make dramatic increases to their nursing staff after recommendations in the review by Robert Francis QC.
(10) Cherished projects will be delayed, cut or dumped in an attempt to recoup a massive overspend in Britain's defence budget, which faces a black hole of £36bn.
(11) What would Labour do about this, and about the likely £2bn NHS overspend this year?
(12) More recently, accountants KPMG, working for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, accused NMP of overspending, failure to reach operational targets and weak leadership at the atomic complex in Cumbria.
(13) Tan undermined Mackay earlier in the season when he sacked Iain Moody , the club's head of recruitment, for allegedly overspending by £15m.
(14) Officials have accused regions of overspending their budgets and jeopardising an austerity programme designed to meet targets set in Brussels.
(15) If councils share back-office services, join forces to procure, cut out the non-jobs and root out the overspends then they can protect frontline services."
(16) The spiralling cost of employing expensive agency staff, which is set to cost the NHS £4bn this year, is the single biggest reason for the £2.2bn overspend.
(17) The project has been beset by delays, overspends and concerns about the type and number of jets that will be flown from the ships.
(18) Their bosses have been given weeks to devise an action plan to reduce overspending or risk being replaced.
(19) The overspending on new players by Allison and Swales is still legendary.
(20) Singling out heavily overspending trusts would simply stigmatise hospitals that were struggling the most, damage staff morale and make it harder for them to recruit new personnel, she said.
Spendthrift
Definition:
(n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
(a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Baelish's talent is for keeping his spendthrift master in cash.
(2) Berlin has ignored the pleas of the OECD, IMF and its allies in Paris and Rome, believing that such a solution would only worsen the spendthrift ways of their southern neighbours.
(3) I’ve never been much of a spendthrift, never really spent on holidays, cars or things like that.
(4) Johnson is the latest in a long line of politicians charged with the funding of academic research who thinks it needs to prove its worth in advance; that highly educated people working hard to fill the gaps in human knowledge never got us anywhere, and what those spendthrift boffins need to do is direct their research towards a readily monetisable goal.
(5) It would bring down to earth the spendthrift populism of Salmond's nationalists, probably lose them the next election and damage the cause of full independence.
(6) She is nobody's idea of a spendthrift, happily chucking money in the direction of the undeserving poor.
(7) Wilders argued Rutte was insulting a million voters by excluding him from the negotiations in advance and accused his rivals of being “liars and spendthrifts”.
(8) He believes this change in behaviour marks a long-term shift from the spendthrift habits of the boom to a savings culture.
(9) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
(10) It was a system that ensured waste by rewarding the most profligate spendthrifts in a system specifically engineered to waste the band’s money.
(11) When combined with the borrowing accumulated by our bloated banking sector and spendthrift consumers before the bubble burst, the UK's debt burden is world-beating.
(12) The problem is not that we lack self-reliance, or that we are spendthrifts.
(13) Then there's the culture that makes Germans the biggest savers and most reluctant spenders, encouraging national stereotypes about the thrifty and the spendthrift, the scroungers and the stingy.
(14) Thus I enjoy the spendthrift distinction of having purchased four Xbox 360 consoles in three years, having abandoned the first to the care of a friend in Brooklyn, left another floating around Europe with parties unknown, and stranded another with a pal in Tallinn (to the irritation of his girlfriend).
(15) This is one of those rare times when the lazy, spendthrift way of doing things really is best: you need to go to the garden centre at the earliest opportunity and buy plants that are big enough to harvest immediately.
(16) Acting on that without the clunking fist of across-the-board interest rate rises would be admirably surgical, since this way the residents of Kingston upon Hull are not punished for the spendthrift house buying of Kingston upon Thames.
(17) Dickens, having known real poverty in childhood and seen his father imprisoned for debt, was very careful with money all his life, drove fierce bargains with publishers, and featured many foolish spendthrifts in his books including Mr Micawber who also lands in a debtors’ prison.
(18) Judging by today's great quango cull , hacking back the unloved tentacles of a supposedly bloated, spendthrift state has proved neither as easy nor as lucrative as hoped.
(19) The determination to cut budget deficits in these circumstances does not show that policymakers of probity and integrity have replaced the irresponsible spendthrifts of 2008 and 2009.
(20) She told the Observer that she was wary of becoming a "monster" because of her success and of being a spendthrift.