spender

  • 21spender — spend|er [ spendər ] noun count someone who spends money: a big spender (=someone who spends a lot of money) the last of the big spenders OFTEN HUMOROUS someone who spends a lot of money, often in a way that is designed to impress people. This… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 22spender — noun (C) someone who spends money: big spender (=someone who regularly spends very large amounts of money) …

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  • 23Spender — spenden: Das schwache Verb mhd. spenden »als Geschenk austeilen, Almosen geben«, ahd. spentōn, spendōn (vgl. entsprechend mniederl. spinden und engl. to spend »ausgeben, aufwenden«) beruht auf Entlehnung aus mlat. spendere »ausgeben, aufwenden« …

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  • 24spender — spend ► VERB (past and past part. spent) 1) pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services. 2) use or use up (energy or resources); exhaust. 3) pass (time) in a specified way. ► NOUN informal ▪ an amount of money paid out. ● …

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  • 25spender — noun 1. someone who spends money to purchase goods or services • Syn: ↑disburser, ↑expender • Derivationally related forms: ↑expend (for: ↑expender), ↑disburse (for: ↑ …

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  • 26Spender, Sir Stephen — ▪ English poet in full  Sir Stephen Harold Spender  born February 28, 1909, London, England died July 16, 1995, London       English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience stricken,… …

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  • 27Spender, Sir Stephen Harold — ▪ 1996       British poet and critic (b. Feb. 28, 1909, London, England d. July 16, 1995, London), was one of the preeminent English poets of the 1930s and a member of the Oxford generation, a small group of youthful literary aesthetes whose… …

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  • 28Spender, Humphrey — ▪ 2006       British photojournalist and artist (b. April 19, 1910, London, Eng. d. March 11, 2005, Ulting, Essex, Eng.), chronicled the everyday lives of working class Britons during the 1930s and 40s in a series of candid, often surreptitiously …

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  • 29Spender, Sir Stephen Harold — (1909 1995)    The son of journalist, he was brought up in London and educated at University College School, London, and at University College, Oxford. His book The Thirties and After (1979) recalls the outspoken Oxford literary figures and… …

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  • 30Spender, Sir Stephen (Harold) — born Feb. 28, 1909, London, Eng. died July 16, 1995, London English poet and critic. While an undergraduate at Oxford, Spender met the poets W.H. Auden and C. Day Lewis. In the 1930s they became identified with politically conscious, leftist new… …

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