| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To waste.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To dawdle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To fritter or squander.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb misspend.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (misspend) | 1. Spend time badly or unwisely.[Wordnet]. 2. Spend (money or other resources) unwisely.[Wordnet]. 3. To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: misspending, misspended, misspends, misspender, misspenders, misspendingly and misspendedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "MISSPENDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1820. (references) |
Specialty Definition: MISSPENDING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Spending to no purpose, or to a bad one.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspend. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
