waste of money

1. 1.

   money spent for inadequate return

   “the senator said that the project was a waste of money”

   Broaderwaste

Questions about waste of money

What does waste of money mean?

waste of money means "money spent for inadequate return".

Is waste of money a common word?

waste of money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.