wasteful expenditure

collocation in English

meaningsofwastefulandexpenditure

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wasteful
adjective
uk
/ˈweɪst.fəl/us
/ˈweɪst.fəl/
using something in a careless way and causing some of it to ...
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expenditure
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspen.dɪ.tʃər/us
/ɪkˈspen.də.tʃɚ/
the total amount of money that a government or ...
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(Definition ofwastefulandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In those cases, the decision should be taken to knock them down, rather than engage inwastefulexpenditurein trying to keep them watertight.
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They have accounted for a great deal of extravagance andwastefulexpenditure.
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Where, against the background of increasing unemployment and the increasing devastation of our industrial base, is anywastefulexpenditureto be found?
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The most senseless andwastefulexpenditureis that on hotel bed and breakfast accommodation.
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Every penny saved that waswastefulexpenditurewill go back into patient care.
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Training must be centralised if there is not to bewastefulexpenditure.
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It saves unnecessary andwastefulexpenditurein the future, and, at the same time, preserves amenities and conveniences for the public.
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In order to keep it within the confines of insurance we must see that there is nowastefulexpenditure.
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To pay for the rearing of a healthy adult population is not reallywastefulexpenditure, but is the truest and most far-reaching economy.
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There is nothing which more certainly increases the cost of living than to compelwastefulexpenditure.
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We feel that sufficient steps should be taken to ensure that unnecessary and especiallywastefulexpenditureshould not be made.
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It is an administrative anachronism which createswastefulexpenditure, waste of time, and does not achieve any useful purpose.
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Making the wrong choice results not only inwastefulexpenditure, but deprives us of attainable environmental gain.
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I submit that would make forwastefulexpenditure.
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We must try to preventwastefulexpenditureas a means to the end that prices do not rise.
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It is difficult to reconcile ourselves to thewastefulexpenditureon drugs and the large sums which otherwise would be available for more effective treatment.
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I hope that he will assure us that that is the sole example ofwastefulexpenditurethat has been traced.
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We have therefore to see that in any legislation which we discuss we do not carry through anything which brings aboutwastefulexpenditure.
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Instances ofwastefulexpenditurehave been given by all the previous speakers, and such instances could be multiplied to a great extent.
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At the same time, there is thoroughlywastefulexpenditure.
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