0 past simple and past participle of squander
1 to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage:
The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels.
In fact, compared to the efficiency (and self-sufficiency) of photosynthesis, much more energy is squandered when one animal consumes another or consumes plant material.
Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing.
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.
She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
The old were provided for within the family, and the law made sure that family land could not be squandered.
Money that could be paid as tax was squandered in these canteens.
In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine.
