0 to spend a lot of money on buying goods, especially expensive goods: --
1 an occasion when someone spends a lot of money buying something expensive: --
2 to spend money on something that is more expensive than you usually buy: --
3 to spend a lot on goods, especially expensive goods: --
Do they want a return to the old days when public money was splurged on industries that eventually went bankrupt?
I hope he does not give us that splurge again, most of which was not related at all to the amendment.
We are so determined to deliver real improvements in health and education that we will not wreck things by an undisciplined splurge.
There was a small increase in expenditure in 1982, with the pre-election splurge on improvement grants, but that has been it.
In the 1980s, there was an unwelcome and remarkable splurge in consumption.
It is no good having a one-off splurge of investment in transport that lasts a year or two.
Three years of cuts in public service are followed by a general election splurge to buy back the electorate.
Yet we have seen, and are seeing, in the splurge of this final fortnight, the reverse of that.
