spendocrat

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noun

A politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.

Scrabble 15

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nounspendocrat (plural spendocrats)

plural spendocrats

  1. attributivederogatoryinformalsometimesA politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.

    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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    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

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APA

spendocrat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spendocrat

MLA

“spendocrat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spendocrat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spendocrat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spendocrat.

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