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Definition of Squanders
1. squander [v] - See also: squander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squanders
Literary usage of Squanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"Where a person squanders money or chattels, or destroys or injures other property,
belonging to his wife or any other party, while intoxicated, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"The Countess separates from her husband, and squanders the fortune left her by
her mother.—Becomes George the First's mistress. ..."
3. The Civil Code of the Province of Quebec, Annotated, Containing the French by Québec (Province), Jean Joseph Beauchamp (1904)
"... С с., 321. squanders or mismanages his property, or places his family in
trouble or distress, or transacts his business prejudicially to his family, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William and Mary by John Heneage Jesse (1901)
"... in Order to Preserve Her Character — Her Mother's Disappointment and Death —
The Countess Separates from Her Husband, and Squanders the Fortune Left Her ..."
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