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Definition of Squandermania
1. Noun. Prodigious squandering (usually by a government).
Category relationships: Administration, Governance, Governing, Government, Government Activity
Definition of Squandermania
1. Noun. excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squandermania
Literary usage of Squandermania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Full Up and Fed Up: The Worker's Mind in Crowded Britain by Whiting Williams (1921)
"Anyway, it lessens the tendency to homesickness to see all the papers here excited
about the same old American items of the government's "squandermania"; ..."
2. Journal of the Institute of Bankers by Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) (1921)
"I am very " specialist in squandermania,' and in that quality I perhaps " greatly
encouraged, however, by the charming observations of " my friend Mr. ..."
3. The Federal Reserve Monster by Wallace Campbell, Sam H. Clark (1922)
"There is nothing in Government annals or in corporate prodigality private or
public to anywhere approximate the absolute squandermania of Federal. ..."