What's the difference between saver and spender?

Saver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who saves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (2) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
  • (3) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
  • (4) So-called "structured" savings accounts promoted heavily by banks and building societies promise savers extra interest if they lock their money away for at least five years.
  • (5) Savers will be allowed to invest up to £15,000 a year in cash accounts, stocks and shares, or any combination of the two.
  • (6) We have used the Haemonetics Cell-Saver autotransfusion technique in over 6,500 cases since 1979, salvaging more than 11,000 units of packed red blood cells.
  • (7) He chose to intervene, and not one saver has lost money.
  • (8) No negative effects were seen in regard to hemofiltration (free hemoglobin and polymorphonuclear elastase; the Cell Saver group had similar values for these variables).
  • (9) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
  • (10) With rates in the doldrums, the news last week that inflation has reached its highest point in the past two-and-a-half years means many cash savers are now losing money in real terms.
  • (11) Blood was salvaged from the operating field of 16 orthopaedic and vascular operations and processed by the Shiley Dideco cell saver for retransfusion.
  • (12) National Savings and Investments, the government backed savings body, has deployed extra staff to deal with a possible last-minute surge from older savers rushing to get their hands on the hugely popular pensioner bonds before they are withdrawn from sale at midnight on Friday.
  • (13) We have long been campaigning on the issue of income drawdown restrictions and so are pleased to see the government taking heed of the plight of these savers.
  • (14) A Downing Street spokesperson said the government would also introduce measures to help savers hit by record low interest rates, after being forced to clarify remarks in the speech that appeared to criticise the Bank of England’s policy of quantitative easing.
  • (15) "However, we now need to balance the interest of savers, the taxpayer and the stability of the financial services market," she said.
  • (16) Regular savings accounts Savers keen to get into the habit of setting aside a regular sum each month can take advantage of several inflation-busting accounts.
  • (17) The Funding for Lending scheme which the government introduced after the financial crisis meant banks and building societies were no longer keen to attract savers’ cash, and they have been making their accounts less and less attractive ever since.
  • (18) In two cases severe bleeding required use of Cell-saver and massive donor blood transfusion.
  • (19) After just one week of the campaign, Ed Miliband has confirmed he’s anti-savers, anti-business and anti-aspiration.
  • (20) Rachel Springall from Moneyfacts.co.uk adds: "Savers would be wise to spread their deposits between a short term fixed deal and an easy access account, that way they can react to market volatility.

Spender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many shops are now catering to these high spenders.
  • (2) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
  • (3) If the rest of the world assumes that the US is once again going to become the world's spender of last resort it is seriously mistaken.
  • (4) As Stephen Spender wrote in a review, "Vidal's essays celebrate the triumphs of private values over the public ones of power.
  • (5) Hollande's proposals were also eagerly awaited by the Sarkozy camp, hoping to discredit the Socialists as big spenders at a time when public money is scarce.
  • (6) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.
  • (7) Some of the biggest spenders were not included in Friday's reports because, technically, they are not considered campaign operations.
  • (8) "Historically, the main photographic moment for the project was 1937 to 1938," says Roberts, "and it was Spender who emerged as the poet-photographer of the group, merging press photography and British documentary realism in a way that often nods to Brassaï and surrealism.
  • (9) Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011).
  • (10) Britain remains the fourth-biggest military spender in the world, but the very scale of that spending – currently £34bn a year – makes it a tempting target for Whitehall economisers.
  • (11) All the debt ceiling ends up becoming is a political football used by the opposition party to suggest the government are profligate spenders.
  • (12) There, Bowles came into contact with Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and Jean Ross, Isherwood's model for Sally Bowles in Goodbye to Berlin.
  • (13) By the age of 18, the charismatic, talented young man with a famous name had attracted friends such as Stephen Spender and the wealthy collector and patron Peter Watson.
  • (14) King said the government would have to put the public finances on a more sustainable footing and warned people that they would have to become savers rather than spenders in the years ahead.
  • (15) Paradoxically, though, Spender's photographs , which are now recognised as an important part of the Mass Observation archive, were never used at the time.
  • (16) In her seminal treatise Man Made Language , the feminist theorist Dale Spender makes the argument that language is a system that embodies sexual inequality.
  • (17) The Nature Conservancy, by far the biggest spender on lobbying among environment groups, spent $850,000.
  • (18) Apart from Sturgeon (whose record the others don’t know much about) he was the only incumbent defending his government (surprise, surprise, Clegg was bent on Tory-bashing) and kept saying all his rivals are high-tax-and-spenders.
  • (19) The average expenditure for the top 1 percent of spenders in 1987 was $47,331.
  • (20) Julie Gardner, the former head of drama for BBC Wales and Doctor Who executive, who is now working in the US, emerged as the second highest spender on hospitality overall, claiming £7,764.51 in 2008-09, just £276.22 less than the director general.

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