0 to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage: --
1 to waste money, or to use something valuable that you have a limited amount of in a bad or foolish way: --
Don’t squander your opportunities when you are young.
3 to fail to use a chance to become successful or to achieve something: --
This is the logic of dissipation of the wine poem, which symbolically squanders the moral wealth of the self-integrated man.
The drinker squanders not only his wealth, but also his honor.
Money that could be paid as tax was squandered in these canteens.
The old were provided for within the family, and the law made sure that family land could not be squandered.
You can save, waste, squander it or use time badly or just use it up, so that you run out of it ('have none left').
She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
Landlords had the means, but they preferred to purchase land for non-economic purposes and/or to squander their money in other pursuits.
Several major opportunities to cross-reference information were squandered during the production of this encyclopaedia and that means its value as a research tool is limited.