squandermania
nounEtymology From squander + -mania.
1
Excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project.
- A third statement which appeared April 15 in a Communist Chinese newspaper "Red Guard" disclosed serious corruption, theft and squandermania among Communist cadres.1975 May 25, “Turmoil on mainland”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 20, Taipei, page 3:
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