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  • noun Plural form of spender.

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Examples

  • Therefore, the impact on consumer spending and employment is likely to be more severe as the charge would disproportionately burden the 'spenders' - low and average income groups.

    Notes On The Front 2010

  • But the repubs of today are not fiscally conservative and are big spenders, which is one of the reasons the party is fractionalized right now.

    Think Progress » Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else 2010

  • The media are now simply advertisers for the biggest political spenders, which is perhaps the reason why the campaign cycle is now virtually continuous.

    Circus Maximus: the clown car of American politics 2007

  • The driving force behind the rejection of the spenders has been the Tea Party Movement.

    PrairiePundit 2010

  • and "spenders" - between spending cuts and fiscal stimulus.

    The Guardian World News Ann Pettifor 2010

  • and "spenders" - between spending cuts and fiscal stimulus.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • The "frills and furbelows" of the younger "spenders" irritated the group of nerves appropriated by his class-consciousness almost beyond endurance; but he managed to stand it by reminding himself that irritation of all such was

    The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • And how many more 'spenders' are there among the 5 million or so currently underwater homeowners - many of whom may at some point decide to default on their mortgage, too, but dutifully continue spending at Best Buy and eating at the Cheesecake Factory?

    Welcome To Jim Sinclair's MineSet Jim Sinclair 2010

  • Broad-based wage growth led to increases in nominal cashflows by "spenders" that could only be tempered by creating unemployment or other conditions under which workers would accept wage concessions.

    Interfluidity 2009

  • The day of the BIG government and BIG "spenders" is here.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2008

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