[f. next.] The act of squandering; extravagant expenditure; an instance of this. Also fig.
1709. Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1736), I. 27. Will he one Day set it all at Stake upon a Royal Cast, an Imperial Squander? Or descend to his Grave, choak’d with greediness of Gain? Ibid., IV. 136. He … did not care to make an Ostentatious Squander of his own Person and Valour, and therefore would be manag’d.
1806. Inq. St. Nation, 92 (Todd). Our affairs have been ruined amidst the waste of our resources, and the squander of our opportunities.
1859. Cornwallis, New World, I. 27. He is a prodigal paymaster, and in the school of squander, completely takes the shine out of the ‘Britishers.’
1893. F. F. Moore, Gray Eye or So, II. 118. There’s not much of a squander in the deal when I get value for it.
