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Waste Of Money

Definition: Waste Of Money

Waste Of Money

Noun

1. Money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Waste Of Money

Specialty definitions using "waste of money": National Priorities List. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Waste Of Money

DomainTitle

Books

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Familiar Quotations: Waste Of Money

AuthorQuotation

Oscar Wilde

Time is waste of money.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Waste Of Money

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Japan

A great advertising campaign in the right magazine may turn out to be a waste of money if not coordinated with a distribution program whereby consumers can purchase it. Advertising/PR firms can also help clients get free or low cost publicity, something which the U.S. Commercial Service in Japan can also help provide for companies which participate in events it sponsors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Waste Of Money

Language Translations for "waste of money"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Geldverschwendung. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pénzpazarlás, kidobott pénz (it is money thrown away). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

散財 (expense, extravagance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さ"ざい (expense, extravagance, powdered medicine, straggling). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asteway ofay oneymay

   

Spanish

  

malgasto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Waste Of Money

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-m-n-o-o-s-t-w-y"

-3 letters: safetymen.

-4 letters: footways, mooneyes.

-5 letters: amnesty, awesome, eftsoon, etymons, fantoms, festoon, foments, footman, footmen, footway, meanest, mooneye, moonset, myosote, osteoma, someone, someway, tawneys, tonemes, townees, twasome, twosome, woesome.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Waste Of Money


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 73 74 65      4F 66      4D 6F 6E 65 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01001101 01101111 01101110 01100101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#77 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0073 0074 0065      004F 0066      004D 006F 006E 0065 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57678586712497224781807191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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