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词汇 spendy
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Definition of spendy in English:

spendy

adjective ˈspɛndi
US informal
  • 1Costing a great deal; expensive.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Supplemented by the money I earned at the salon, of course, because school is a very spendy place, and I was not rich.
    • If you can't afford it (and it's spendy, no doubt) please consider ordering it for your library.
    • We ate at a spendy restaurant, then drove around by the beach.
    • As the current administration in office is learning, war is a spendy business - feeding and equipping troops, buying armaments and ammunition, transporting materials to and fro - it all costs lots of money.
    • I would heartily recommend it as at least a rental if you haven't seen it, because its $29.99 retail price makes it a little spendy for a blind purchase.
    • Despite spendy cover charges and velvet-roped entrances, he theorizes, the upscale, Miami-style bars that have opened in the district recently have exacerbated matters.
    • Why go out to an expensive restaurant now when we'll probably eat out at pizza places more often then the spendy ones?
    • In the cheap bar of the spendy restaurant, I was told that the Army Corps of Engineers had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
    • Although there is nothing any of us can do about snow - goofy dances and spendy snow guns aside - there is quite a bit that can he done about fostering new and improved programs.
    • I was eyeing this trunk as I drove by it on my way to the dump this weekend but thought it might be spendy.
    • I am interested in them, but they seem kind of spendy.
    • Drinks are very spendy but as long as you are a cute girl you are probably not going to have to worry about your tab.
    • They're spendy, but everything there is fantastically comfortable, and lasts basically forever.
    1. 1.1 Spending a great deal of money; extravagant.
      that's not a real spendy crowd—they eat fast food
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I can just imagine the flip chart presentations now at the spendy branding agency office.
      • All it took was a year without the Stanley Cup being presented, and the owners got what they wanted, a formal limit imposed on their spendy ways.
      • He's spendy; he buys luxury Japanese cars new, financing them such that he soon owes more on the car than it is worth.
      • It's all a testament to the spendy tastes and fiercely pro-urban character of the people who live in this part of town.
      • I have just spent the last half an hour assessing my finances and, whether I am feeling spendy or otherwise, I am on bread and water rations from this point on.

Definition of spendy in US English:

spendy

adjectiveˈspendē
US informal
  • 1Costing a great deal; expensive.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Drinks are very spendy but as long as you are a cute girl you are probably not going to have to worry about your tab.
    • Although there is nothing any of us can do about snow - goofy dances and spendy snow guns aside - there is quite a bit that can he done about fostering new and improved programs.
    • They're spendy, but everything there is fantastically comfortable, and lasts basically forever.
    • Supplemented by the money I earned at the salon, of course, because school is a very spendy place, and I was not rich.
    • In the cheap bar of the spendy restaurant, I was told that the Army Corps of Engineers had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
    • I would heartily recommend it as at least a rental if you haven't seen it, because its $29.99 retail price makes it a little spendy for a blind purchase.
    • As the current administration in office is learning, war is a spendy business - feeding and equipping troops, buying armaments and ammunition, transporting materials to and fro - it all costs lots of money.
    • Despite spendy cover charges and velvet-roped entrances, he theorizes, the upscale, Miami-style bars that have opened in the district recently have exacerbated matters.
    • If you can't afford it (and it's spendy, no doubt) please consider ordering it for your library.
    • We ate at a spendy restaurant, then drove around by the beach.
    • Why go out to an expensive restaurant now when we'll probably eat out at pizza places more often then the spendy ones?
    • I was eyeing this trunk as I drove by it on my way to the dump this weekend but thought it might be spendy.
    • I am interested in them, but they seem kind of spendy.
    1. 1.1 Spending a great deal of money; extravagant.
      that's not a real spendy crowd—they eat fast food
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's all a testament to the spendy tastes and fiercely pro-urban character of the people who live in this part of town.
      • All it took was a year without the Stanley Cup being presented, and the owners got what they wanted, a formal limit imposed on their spendy ways.
      • I can just imagine the flip chart presentations now at the spendy branding agency office.
      • I have just spent the last half an hour assessing my finances and, whether I am feeling spendy or otherwise, I am on bread and water rations from this point on.
      • He's spendy; he buys luxury Japanese cars new, financing them such that he soon owes more on the car than it is worth.
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