noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big eater/drinker/spender etc
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Des is a big gambler, you know.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The Government has become Britain's biggest spender on advertising.
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Other big spenders include personal social services and the police, each of which takes about a tenth.
high
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Britain would then become the third highest spender on international development.
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Oxford City Council has been a high spender since Labour got control.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compulsive overeater/gambler/spender/liar etc
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Characters are apparently motiveless, compulsive liars, who shy from eye contact.
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I imagine compulsive gamblers get started this way.
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Mel is a compulsive liar too, but I guess Steve is too self-obsessed to care.
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Most compulsive gamblers are not hugely successful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time, white-collar spenders fear losing their jobs.
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Britain would then become the third highest spender on international development.
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By diverting purchasing power from private spenders to government, taxes free resources from private uses.
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Hence, we shall consider households first as income receivers and second as spenders.
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However, the most important spenders are clients who most frequently use London-based agencies.
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In effect, the government has been taking more resources from young savers and transferring them to spenders.
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In general the highest spending families live in London and the South East, and the lowest spenders live in the North.
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The self-supporting peasant was transformed into a spender of money, for all the things he needed were now in the shops.