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spendocrat en · NOUN

Etymology

From spend + -o- + -crat.

Meanings

1. (attributive, derogatory, informal, sometimes) A politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.
   • Not AT&T, nor even our governmental spendocrats, can afford to toss satellites into space indefinitely and write them off when a faulty transistor or a coy contact puts them out of commission. 1963, Telephone Engineer & Management, volume 67, page 47:
   • Spendocrats, I mean Democrats, are willing to pass bills that will cause economic hardship just so that they can show their base that they did it — pandering for votes. 2012, James Liberty, F. R. E. E. D. O. M.: Essays on America's Fight for Freedom, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 38:
   • While Washington "spendocrats," of both parties, have spent and wasted more than 100 billion dollars in so-called foreign aid, […] 1963, Martin Dies, Martin Dies' Story, Bookmailer, page 17:

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taxocrat