"squanderation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Tracy Groot, The Sentinels of Andersonville, Tyndale House Publishing, page 268",
          "text": "Had Corporal Jones produced his orders early on, we all might have been spared a lamentable squanderation of much-needed time."
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          "ref": "1956, Plurifarious Periodical Authors, LIFE Magazine - Volume 40 - Number 2, Published by Time Incorporated, page 28",
          "text": "The Democrats make quite outrageous demands for still greater squanderation of farm surpluses."
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          "ref": "1951, National Association of Manufacturers, NAM News - Volume 19 - Part 2, The Wisconsin University Press - Madison, Editorial page 1",
          "text": "Only the unions, that is, and the federal tax authorities who have a vested interest in national squanderation."
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        {
          "ref": "1941, Chilton Company, Iron Age - Volume 148, The Michigan University Press, page 33",
          "text": "This inflation is the direct and inevitable result of the squanderation policy that has been in effect for the past nine years and that has brought us to the brink of war with the greatest national indebtedness of any country, any where, at any time."
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          "ref": "1958, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury, Volume 87, The California University Press, page 26",
          "text": "A policy of squanderation now will revive inflation without curing recession."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Miles Franklin, The End of my Career, Pocket Books - The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 201",
          "text": "Pure squanderation of the cannon and unnecessarily flattening to the skeet."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Congress - Volume 84 - Part 12, U.S. Government Printing Office - The California University Press, page 1735",
          "text": "With a huge overhanging national indebtedness brought on by the Roosevelt squanderation policies, it will end in economic chaos. War can and shall be avoided with wisdom in the high places."
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        "The act or process of squandering; the state or quality of being squandered; dissipation; wastefulness."
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          "ref": "2014, Tracy Groot, The Sentinels of Andersonville, Tyndale House Publishing, page 268",
          "text": "Had Corporal Jones produced his orders early on, we all might have been spared a lamentable squanderation of much-needed time."
        },
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          "ref": "1956, Plurifarious Periodical Authors, LIFE Magazine - Volume 40 - Number 2, Published by Time Incorporated, page 28",
          "text": "The Democrats make quite outrageous demands for still greater squanderation of farm surpluses."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, National Association of Manufacturers, NAM News - Volume 19 - Part 2, The Wisconsin University Press - Madison, Editorial page 1",
          "text": "Only the unions, that is, and the federal tax authorities who have a vested interest in national squanderation."
        },
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          "ref": "1941, Chilton Company, Iron Age - Volume 148, The Michigan University Press, page 33",
          "text": "This inflation is the direct and inevitable result of the squanderation policy that has been in effect for the past nine years and that has brought us to the brink of war with the greatest national indebtedness of any country, any where, at any time."
        },
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          "text": "A policy of squanderation now will revive inflation without curing recession."
        },
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          "text": "Pure squanderation of the cannon and unnecessarily flattening to the skeet."
        },
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          "text": "With a huge overhanging national indebtedness brought on by the Roosevelt squanderation policies, it will end in economic chaos. War can and shall be avoided with wisdom in the high places."
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