big spender
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4.2
- noun
- /bɪɡ ˈspɛndər/
:
gastador
- The event attracted many big spenders who were eager to showcase their wealth.
I'm not really a big spender on things that I don't really find important, like clothes.
- I'm not really a big spender on things that I don't really find important, like clothes.
- Wealthy Russians may be big spenders when they spend time in London, but Britain gets less from them than you might think.
- As a group, they were China's biggest spender on construction projects prior to the real estate meltdown, and now they seem to be the only buyers left.
Examples
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We got ourselves a couple of big spenders here.
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Even the cops are pressing closer to see who the big spender is.
Fiction book (1992) -
By the way, Magic is absolutely not the big spender; that honor goes to Mark Walter.
Blog text (32) -
Wealthy Russians may be big spenders when they spend time in London, but Britain gets less from them than you might think.
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Boomers may be big spenders, but their kids will be the largest consumer generation in history.
Blog text (14) -
I'm not really a big spender on things that I don't really find important, like clothes.
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The Saudi elite became notorious big spenders and lost credibility and respect among religious conservatives.
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Bing wasn't the only big spender on election day, typically huge for news organizations covering the election.
Blog text (7) -
As a group, they were China's biggest spender on construction projects prior to the real estate meltdown, and now they seem to be the only buyers left.
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Can an Italian district full of restaurants and shops attract tourists and other big spenders to a city that has always epitomized ethnic divisions and contested space?
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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5.6
A person who gambles or spends very large amounts of money, often in casinos
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9.4
A person who spends money freely and carelessly
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7.2
A person who spends money or time carelessly on unimportant things
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8.5
A person who spends money in a careless, wasteful way
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9.9
A person who spends money or wastes resources and shows little care about right and wrong
A person who spends money quickly and carelessly
A person who often buys things they do not need and runs out of money
A person who spends money or time carelessly on things they do not need
A person who spends more money than they should
Antonyms
How Extravagant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'big' functions as an intensifier applied to 'spender', so a learner who knows 'big' and 'spender' will readily infer 'someone who spends a lot of money.' The nuance of extravagance or showiness is a pragmatic extension but does not prevent straightforward derivation, and the intensifier+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Big spender comes from the simple picture of someone waving a large stack of cash and buying expensive things. Big shows a large amount and spender is the person who spends, so the phrase means 'a person who spends a lot', often to show off.