How to pronounce“profligate”in English
nounthat demand is not the problem that we should all do supply and productive investment and we need to boost potential growth because we were so
profligate before there is a part of truth in here but it true that in a sense it means that they are choosing they're picking the sectors that is very
French to be interventionist on the contrary in Germany because of the room to maneuver and because of the need for quite some time to give these incentives
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Definitions of “profligate”
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
“[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!”
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
“Made prostitute and profligate the muse.”
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
“Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?”
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
“He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.”
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