Usually means: Wasted or misused time, resources.
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  1. ill-spent: Wordnik
  2. ill-spent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  3. ill-spent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  4. ill-spent: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. ill-spent: Dictionary.com
  6. ill-spent: Wiktionary

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adjective:  Of money, not spent wisely.

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