spendocrat

English

Etymology

spend +‎ -o- +‎ -crat

Noun

spendocrat (plural spendocrats)

  1. (informal, derogatory, sometimes used attributively) A politician or bureaucrat supporting excessive spending.
    • 1963, Martin Dies, Martin Dies' Story, Bookmailer, page 17:
      While Washington "spendocrats," of both parties, have spent and wasted more than 100 billion dollars in so-called foreign aid, […]
    • 1963, Telephone Engineer & Management, volume 67, page 47:
      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.
    • 2012, James Liberty, F. R. E. E. D. O. M.: Essays on America's Fight for Freedom, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 38:
      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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:spendocrat.

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