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Definition: Spender |
SpenderNoun1. English poet and critic (1909-1995). 2. Someone who spends money prodigally. 3. Someone who spends money to purchase goods or services. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Spender" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references) |
Synonyms: SpenderSynonyms: disburser (n), expender (n), spend-all (n), spendthrift (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spender |
| Non-English Usage: "Spender" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (contributor, dispenser, donator, donor, giver, givers, subscriber). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Big Spender (2003) The Spender (1915) Spender (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The AAI is the single largest spender on airport infrastructure development. (references) | |
While the government is a major spender in the environmental sector, winning public projects presents a number of challenges for foreign companies. (references) | ||
Economic History | Italy | Since 1997, Italy has become the fifth largest spender in international travel. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spender" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Spender" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (proper) | 40.48% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.52% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Spender" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Spender | Last name | 130 | 67,641 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Spender": big spender ♦ Sir Stephen Harold Spender ♦ Stephen Spender. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Spender": Spender-payne. | |
Ending with "Spender": high-spender. | |
Containing "Spender": Auden-spender-isherwood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
big lyrics spender | 59 | compulsive spender | 3 |
big hey lyrics spender | 41 | dale spender | 3 |
big spender | 37 | big lyrics song spender | 3 |
big hey spender | 32 | poet spender stephen | 3 |
spender | 25 | big mp3 spender | 2 |
stephen spender | 17 | anonymous compulsive spender | 2 |
anonymous spender | 13 | big fosse spender | 2 |
big song spender | 6 | jimmy nail spender | 2 |
poem spender stephen | 5 | big fosse lyrics spender | 2 |
big dollar i i m over spender stop tried | 5 | big midi spender | 2 |
big hey song spender | 4 | big charity spender sweet | 2 |
dinar spender | 3 | ||
big charity spender sweet | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Spender"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prishanik (extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift, thriftless), dorëshpuar (spendthrift, thriftless, wastrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منفاق الثروة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разточител (spendthrift, squanderer, wanton, waster), прахосник (prodigal, profligate, scatter-good, spendthrift, squanderer, waster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prodigue, dépensier (spendthrift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτόσ που ξοδεύει, δαπανών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בזבזן (spendthrift, squanderer, wastrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | költekezõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pianta disperditrice di acqua (water spender, water spending plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stroieder (abolisher, annihilator, destroyer, waster), ceaueyder (consumer, thrower, user, user of drugs etc, wearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enderspay perdulário (chappie, prodigal, spendthrift, thriftless), gastador (chappy, extravagant, lavish, prodigal, thriftless, unthrifty, waster), aquele que gasta. (various references) risipitor (dissipated, extravagant, improvident, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful), persoanã care cheltuieşte, cheltuitor (dissipated, extravagant, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful, waster). (various references) транжира, мот (spendthrift). (various references) rasipnik (profligate, spendthrift, waster, wastrel), osoba koja troši novac. (various references) gastador (big spender, pound-foolish). (various references) slösare (prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel). (various references) müsrif (consumptive, extravagant, improvident, inefficient, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, squander, squanderer, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful), harcayan. (various references) марнотарт. (various references) người tiêu tiền, người tiêu hoang (scattergoad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Spender": spenders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Spender": overspender, suspender. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Spender": overspenders, suspendered, suspenders. (additional references) | |
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"Spender" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espedair, pendre, scendere, sendel, sendero, spamer, spander, spendi, spenser, spinde, splender, sponcer, spondere, Szendrey, upender. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Spender" (pronounced spe"nder) |
| 6 | s p e" n d er | suspender. |
| 4 | -e" n d er | bender, blender, contender, defender, Ender, engender, Fender, gender, lender, offender, pretender, render, sender, slender, splendor, surrender, tender, vendor. |
| 3 | -n d er | Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, binder, blander, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, coriander, cylinder, extender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, mainlander, meander, minder, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, Sidewinder, slander, sounder, squander, Stander, sunder, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: denser, enders, preens, resend, sender. | |
-2 letters: deeps, deers, denes, dense, drees, ender, ernes, needs, neeps, nerds, pedes, peens, peers, pends, penes, perse, preed, preen, prees, prese, redes, reeds, rends, seder, sered, sneer, speed, speer, spend, spree. | |
-3 letters: deep, deer, dees, dene, dens, dere, dree, ends, erne, erns, need, neep, nerd, peds, peed, peen. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: perpends, prebends, pretends, spenders. | |
+2 letters: crispened, dampeners, deepeners, dispenser, endosperm, endospore, endpapers, ensphered, ephedrins, expanders, expenders, insphered, overspend, panderers, phrensied, ponderers, presented, president, prudences, repetends, responded, responder, sharpened, suspender, unpressed, unsphered. | |
+3 letters: apprehends, dapperness, depressant, depressing, depression, dispensers, endosperms, endospores, ephedrines, expounders, hesperidin, interposed, necropsied, overspends, pedantries, pedestrian, penholders, personated, plunderers, precedents, predefines, predestine, prednisone, prescinded, presidency, presidents, pretenders, promenades, provenders, pteridines, reinspired, reprehends, respondent, responders, rinderpest, splendider, splintered, supervened, suspenders, terpenoids, trapnested. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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