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 return might be uncertain, but it should not be unreasonable, and capital ought not to be squandered on commercial enterprises that promise mainly non-commercial gains.
This freedom to choose seemed such a precious gift, an opportunity to involve one's inner purposes in a life's work, a gift that must not be squandered.
On a number of occasions, it took up to two hours to locate a doctor to prescribe analgesia, with considerable time squandered as all parties 'cross-communicated' to achieve adequate prescriptions.
I had squandered a splendid opportunity.
Free trade offered a chance to relax pressure on the environment and open the countryside to everybody but the opportunity was squandered by cashing in on blood sports.
Those who squandered loans on ill-advised projects and corruption will feel vindicated.
The latter were already condemned in 1739 as morally corrupt, vain petty potentates who squandered what little credit and resources they possessed on indigent luxury.
In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine.
