spendocrat

spendocrat

English

Etymology

spend +‎ -o- +‎ -crat

Noun

spendocrat (plural spendocrats)

1. (informal, derogatory, sometimes used attributively) A politician or bureaucrat viewed as supporting excessive spending.
   • 1963, Martin Dies, Martin Dies' Story, Bookmailer (1963), 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 (2012), →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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:spendocrat.

See also

• taxocrat

Anagrams

• dancesport