long run for a short slide
work
licence to print money
spending spree
saving
falling-off
waste of money
lavishness
expending
extravagance
high life
highlife
prodigality
squandermania
profusion
high-budget
costful
discretionary spending
pittance
belt-tightening
neve
advantageously
powerful
overexpenditure
well
spendathon
go far
setaside
business expense
high-stakes
easy money
overreliance
trade expense
gravy train
compendiously
save
grubstake
bang one's head against a brick wall
tax
make unnecessary
cost-saving
exertion
put out
spendful
laboriously
defray
supplemental
hand to mouth
overcompensation
sunk costs fallacy
constrain
flumpence
struggle
cost
skimp
chunk
large-handed
extravagantly
scrimp
unexpired cost
stint
expense
trouble
get stuck in
ill-spent
inexpensively
costfully
cheaply
stand
thrifty
overfunding
federal deficit
overthriftiness
retrenchment
latte factor
opportunity cost
deadlift
slim pickings
difficulty
scrape together
margin
cost-effectiveness
underresourced
scarceness
scarcity
expenditure
burn
penurity
disinvestiture
rake together
purse
run short
spendthriftily
overcontribution
frog hair
underbill
aftercost

English words for 'A large expenditure of effort for a modest benefit.'

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