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Excessive spending or use of resources; also an unusually lavish purchase or display.

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extravagance

Custom furniture seemed an extravagance when the group already had adequate tables.
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Preparing a small apartment dinner, Jae worried that renting a second set of decorative plates would be an extravagance when enough suitable plates were already available.
From Choosing What Is Worth Buying.
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