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| ex·trav·a·gance [ ik strávvəgənss ] (plural ex·trav·a·gan·ces) or ex·trav·a·gan·cy [ ik strávvəgənssee ] (plural ex·trav·a·gan·cies) |
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1. immoderate spending: excessive or wasteful spending of money
 was condemned to poverty by their father's extravagance
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2. expensive thing: something that is expensive or wasteful
A car like that is an extravagance in today's economic climate.
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3. excessiveness: the exaggerated, excessive, or extremely flamboyant nature of something, e.g. a wild unreasonableness in somebody's speech or behavior
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