What's the difference between spender and spendthrift?
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.
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.