📚 Squander, verb. 🔉 /ˈskwɒndə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Allow (an opportunity) to pass or be lost. ❗️ Examples: 1. The team squandered several good scoring chances. 2. During his time as governor, the enemies were student protesters who, Reagan argued, were squandering the opportunities hard-working taxpayers so kindly provided. 3. Mr Yeo warned the whole event was in danger of becoming bogged down in costly bureaucracy, and that the Government was in danger of squandering a valuable opportunity to promote Britain. 4. Last night, he said it had betrayed millions of people by squandering its opportunity to become a major political party. 5. Yet, they squandered these opportunities by not working hard enough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic