Usually means: Excessive use of resources unnecessarily.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. wastefulness: Merriam-Webster
  2. wastefulness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wastefulness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wastefulness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Wastefulness, wastefulness: Wordnik
  6. wastefulness: Wiktionary
  7. wastefulness: Dictionary.com
  8. wastefulness: Rhymezone
  9. wastefulness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. wastefulness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. wastefulness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. wastefulness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wastefulness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wastefulness: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources

Similar:
thriftlessness, waste, dissipation, prodigality, profusion, extravagance, overexpenditure, profligate, squanderlust, overthriftiness, more...

Phrases:
reckless wastefulness, more...

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Similar:
thriftlessness, waste, dissipation, prodigality, profusion, extravagance, overexpenditure, profligate, squanderlust, overthriftiness, more...

Phrases:
reckless wastefulness, more...



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