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Spendthrift vs Proliferate - What's the difference?

spendthrift | proliferate |

As a noun spendthrift

is someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

As an adjective spendthrift

is wasteful, improvident or profligate.

As a verb proliferate is

to increase in number or spread rapidly.

spendthrift

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * spendthrift trust

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wasteful, improvident or profligate.
  • Lavish or extravagant.
  • proliferate

    English

    Verb

    (proliferat)
  • To increase in number or spread rapidly.
  • The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}