Cost and Squandering

Cost

Cost noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.

Squandering and cost are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Squandering" instead a noun "Cost".

Nearby Words: costly, costless, costing, costliness

Squandering

Squandering noun - Spending resources lavishly and wastefully.

Cost and squandering are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cost" instead a noun "Squandering".

Nearby Words: squander, squandered, squanderer

Both words in one sentence

  • The Cycle of Empires In Star Wars, the Galactic Republic is in decline at the start of the Episode I, but Emperor Palpatine, rather than squandering it, restores it to expansion, but at the cost of turning it into, well, The Empire.
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