imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources

Inclined to waste or squander money or resources. / (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

plural of waste

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waste

present participle of waste

Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.

Gradual deterioration or wasting away. / The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.

(obsolete) A waste or wilderness.

plural of wastness

plural of wasting