Spendthrift

  • 21Spendthrift trust — A spendthrift trust is a trust that is created for the benefit of a person (often because he or she is unable to control spending) that gives an independent trustee full authority to make decisions as to how the trust funds may be spent for the… …

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  • 22Spendthrift (horse) — Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename = Spendthrift caption = sire = Australian grandsire = West Australian dam = Aerolite damsire = Lexington sex = Stallion foaled = 1876 country = United States flagicon|USA colour = Chestnut breeder = A. J.… …

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  • 23spendthrift trust — A trust created to provide a fund for the maintenance of a beneficiary and at the same time to secure the fund against his improvidence or incapacity; provisions against alienation of the trust fund by the voluntary act of the beneficiary or by… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 24spendthrift — /spend thrift /, n. 1. a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal. adj. 2. wastefully extravagant; prodigal. [1595 1605; SPEND + THRIFT] Syn. 2. wasteful, improvident, profligate. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 25spendthrift — 1. noun Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully. 2. adjective a) Wasteful, improvident or profligate. b) Lavish or …

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  • 26spendthrift — Synonyms and related words: big time spender, dissipative, easy come, easy go, extravagant, improvident, incontinent, intemperate, lavish, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny wise and pound foolish, pound foolish, prodigal, prodigal son …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 27spendthrift — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wastrel, prodigal, profligate, squanderer. See waste. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wastrel, squanderer, high spender, waster, prodigal, prodigal son, profligate, high roller*, big spender*, high roller*.… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 28spendthrift — spend|thrift [ˈspendˌθrıft] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: spend + thrift money saved (14 19 centuries)] someone who spends money carelessly, even when they do not have a lot of it …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29spendthrift — spend|thrift [ spend,θrıft ] noun count someone who is very careless about money and spends more than they need to. This word shows you do not approve of people like this …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 30spendthrift — spend·thrift || spendθrɪft n. one who wastes money, big spender, one who disburses money or possessions extravagantly …

    English contemporary dictionary