profligacy

基本解释

• n.放荡；不检点；浪费

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
  这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。
• That stance would help dispel the government’s reputation for profligacy, while chiming with a residual hunch that the party cares more about the public services than the Tories.
  这种姿态有助于平凡政府肆意挥霍的罪名，也与民众残存的直觉一致——民众直觉认为工党比保守党更加注重公共服务。
• Thanks to Chancellor Brown’s profligacy and overoptimism in the good years, government borrowing as a share of GDP is forecast by the IMF to be the highest in the entire G20 in 2010.
  “多亏”首相布朗在经济景气的时候肆意挥霍和过于乐观，国际货币基金组织（IMF）预测2010年英国的政府开支占其GDP的比重将会是二十国集团中最高的。

权威例句

• "Yes, it's redistribution, but it's redistribution based on energy profligacy and dependence, " says Kaiser.
  FORBES: Magazine Article
• When Congress prefers profligacy—which is most of the time—they become little more than an inconvenience.
  FORBES: With Budget Cap Game, Washington Ducks Real Problem
• But this kind of pork-barrel profligacy has helped keep Japan mired in semirecession for a decade.
  FORBES: Fact and Comment

词组短语

短语

• Financial Profligacy 财政挥霍

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• Profligacy is the spending of too much money or the using of too much of something.