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 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. 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." 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 Dictionarysplurge 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 splurgenoun[ C ]us/ˈsplɜrdʒ/ We go to that restaurant for our big end-of-the-year splurge. splurge | Business Englishsplurge 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 splurgesplurge It would be monstrous if that money saw another splurge in local authority spending. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has invaded the privacy of countless people, not only politicians, and has splurged stories all over the broadsheet press. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can we look again at some way to improve our budgetary arrangements, so that they do not cause that last-minute splurge? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this day and age, it strikes me as odd that such an organisation should be allowed to splurge our money in this way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want any more splurges, with companies buying typists' chairs and desks at the end of the financial year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result was a splurge of national newspaper advertising, at vast expense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That explosion of credit had the effect of inflating the house market, and it led to a splurge of consumer spending. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet we have seen, and are seeing, in the splurge of this final fortnight, the reverse of that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Three years of cuts in public service are followed by a general election splurge to buy back the electorate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no good having a one-off splurge of investment in transport that lasts a year or two. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the 1980s, there was an unwelcome and remarkable splurge in consumption. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a small increase in expenditure in 1982, with the pre-election splurge on improvement grants, but that has been it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are so determined to deliver real improvements in health and education that we will not wreck things by an undisciplined splurge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope he does not give us that splurge again, most of which was not related at all to the amendment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do they want a return to the old days when public money was splurged on industries that eventually went bankrupt? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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