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misspend

/mis-spend/US // mɪsˈspɛnd //UK // (ˌmɪsˈspɛnd) //

乱花钱,误花钱,误花,乱花钱的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mis·spent, mis·spend·ing.

    • : to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.

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Examples

  • Roosevelt Blackmon, a Lincoln Heights community member, had been making claims for months that leaders at Lincoln misspent several hundred thousand dollars of the school’s discretionary funding.

  • The district took the allegations of misspending very seriously, and even hired an outside law firm to conduct an independent review of the claims last year.

  • They were referring to an article I wrote about misspending at Lincoln High School.

  • He was forced to the conclusion that he had done nothing else throughout his life but misspend his time.

  • Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.