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词汇 splurge
释义 splurge
verb[ I or T ]
 informaluk /splɜːdʒ/ us /splɝːdʒ/
to spend a lot of money on buying goods, especially expensive goods: 乱花(钱);挥霍(尤指购买奢侈品)
I feel like splurging (out)on a new dress.我想花大价钱买件新裙子。
I can happily splurge 3,000 pounds in one day.
Synonym
splash out (something)UK
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to spend money
spendHow much do you intend to spend on a house?
payWhen you bought the tickets, how much did you pay?
investShe's invested all her savings in the business.
pay outI've just paid out £700 to get the car fixed.
splurgeWe've just splurged on new kitchen appliances.
blowWe won a £15 million settlement in court and we blew it all in six years.
Splurge on dinner at the Earl Grey Lodge.
When my wife and I splurge, we have caviar.
Rather than splurge, he put his money in the bank.
He splurged £7,130 on clothes in Italian boutiques.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Paying money
2FA
2SV
ante up (something)
burn a hole in someone's pocketidiom
buying power
cost-cutting
fund
non-contributory
outlay
overpaid
put someone through something
put something on your/someone's card
put something towards something
reimburse
run to something
self-finance
spend
spent
sponsor
tipper
splurge
noun[ C ]
uk /splɜːdʒ/ us /splɝːdʒ/
an occasion when someone spends a lot of money buying something expensive:
Charlotte made a rare splurge on an expensive bottle of perfume.
We can't afford a spending splurge.
It was a rare splurge for a man as tightfisted as her father.
If you can afford the splurge, go for it.
His big-ticket splurge this year was Pascal Dusapin's modernist opera "Faustus, The Last Night."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Buying
acquirable
acquire
acquisition
acquisitiveness
bidding
bidding war
extravagance
load up on something
make a down payment on something
misorder
money-off
order form
purchasing power
reimportation
repurchase
retail therapy
ROBO
ROPO
slate
webrooming

splurge | American Dictionary


splurge
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈsplɜrdʒ/
to spend money on something that is more expensive than you usually buy:
[ I ]We could save the money or splurge on a new car

splurge


noun[ C ]us/ˈsplɜrdʒ/
We go to that restaurant for our big end-of-the-year splurge.

splurge | Business English


splurge
verb[ I ]
 informaluk /splɜːdʒ/us
to spend a lot on goods, especially expensive goods:
Most people don't go out and splurge and spend all their money on cars and jewellery.

Examples of splurge


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It would be monstrous if that money saw another splurge in local authority spending.
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He has invaded the privacy of countless people, not only politicians, and has splurged stories all over the broadsheet press.
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Can we look again at some way to improve our budgetary arrangements, so that they do not cause that last-minute splurge?
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In this day and age, it strikes me as odd that such an organisation should be allowed to splurge our money in this way.
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We do not want any more splurges, with companies buying typists' chairs and desks at the end of the financial year.
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The result was a splurge of national newspaper advertising, at vast expense.
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That explosion of credit had the effect of inflating the house market, and it led to a splurge of consumer spending.
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Yet we have seen, and are seeing, in the splurge of this final fortnight, the reverse of that.
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Three years of cuts in public service are followed by a general election splurge to buy back the electorate.
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It is no good having a one-off splurge of investment in transport that lasts a year or two.
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In the 1980s, there was an unwelcome and remarkable splurge in consumption.
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There was a small increase in expenditure in 1982, with the pre-election splurge on improvement grants, but that has been it.
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We are so determined to deliver real improvements in health and education that we will not wreck things by an undisciplined splurge.
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I hope he does not give us that splurge again, most of which was not related at all to the amendment.
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Do they want a return to the old days when public money was splurged on industries that eventually went bankrupt?
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