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词汇 example_english_wasteful-expenditure
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wasteful expenditure

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meanings of wastefuland expenditure


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wasteful
adjective
uk /ˈweɪst.fəl/ us /ˈweɪst.fəl/
using something in a careless way and causing some of it to ...
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expenditure
noun
uk /ɪkˈspen.dɪ.tʃər/ us /ɪkˈspen.də.tʃɚ/
the total amount of money that a government or ...
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Examples of wasteful expenditure


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In those cases, the decision should be taken to knock them down, rather than engage in wastefulexpenditure in trying to keep them watertight.
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They have accounted for a great deal of extravagance and wastefulexpenditure.
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Where, against the background of increasing unemployment and the increasing devastation of our industrial base, is any wastefulexpenditure to be found?
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The most senseless and wastefulexpenditure is that on hotel bed and breakfast accommodation.
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Every penny saved that was wastefulexpenditure will go back into patient care.
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Training must be centralised if there is not to be wastefulexpenditure.
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It saves unnecessary and wastefulexpenditure in the future, and, at the same time, preserves amenities and conveniences for the public.
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In order to keep it within the confines of insurance we must see that there is no wastefulexpenditure.
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To pay for the rearing of a healthy adult population is not really wastefulexpenditure, but is the truest and most far-reaching economy.
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There is nothing which more certainly increases the cost of living than to compel wastefulexpenditure.
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We feel that sufficient steps should be taken to ensure that unnecessary and especially wastefulexpenditure should not be made.
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It is an administrative anachronism which creates wastefulexpenditure, waste of time, and does not achieve any useful purpose.
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Making the wrong choice results not only in wastefulexpenditure, but deprives us of attainable environmental gain.
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I submit that would make for wastefulexpenditure.
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We must try to prevent wastefulexpenditure as a means to the end that prices do not rise.
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It is difficult to reconcile ourselves to the wastefulexpenditure on drugs and the large sums which otherwise would be available for more effective treatment.
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I hope that he will assure us that that is the sole example of wastefulexpenditure that has been traced.
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We have therefore to see that in any legislation which we discuss we do not carry through anything which brings about wastefulexpenditure.
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Instances of wastefulexpenditure have been given by all the previous speakers, and such instances could be multiplied to a great extent.
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At the same time, there is thoroughly wastefulexpenditure.
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