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Перевод: profligate

[прилагательное]
распутный; расточительный;
[существительное]
распутник ; расточитель

Тезаурус:

1. Shortly before David Hunt, Minister of State for the Environment, announced drastic changes in the "safety net" arrangements to the conference, he was warned once again that poll tax payers in prudent council areas should not have to subsidise the profligate.
2. "Profligate spending has not only driven employers and would-be employers away and thus lost jobs, but resources have been taken away from other areas by the rate support grant formula as the spiral of inner city decline causes the rate base in inner city areas to diminish, while their needs grow"
3. Once again, the immediate issues were the royal prerogative and the high tax burdens entailed by the monarch's profligate spending.
4. Americans, it is said, are profligate consumers of energy.
5. In almost all countries, state-owned enterprises are far less efficient than their private counterparts; governments, shielded from market pressures, are often careless and profligate investors.
6. Rate capping has meant that for every "profligate" pound spent on such provision, 6 has been taken away.
7. The economic report dismisses claims that America is unusually profligate in its energy use.
8. Only a maniac, he said, would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone.
9. This degree of control was introduced because the government believed that some urban Labour councils were profligate in their policies on spending - policies that would undermine the viability of local businesses.
10. Their revolutions based on the 18th century economics of Jean-Baptiste Say and Adam Smith, paved the way for the most profligate age since the 1920s.
11. In these days when money isn't worth what it was, it may not seem especially profligate to blow a few hundred thousands on transport modelling, but it is worth thinking about how else the government could have invested the money.
12. Only the dwindling band of loyal Conservative voters was likely to believe that the increase in charges compared with the rates was the responsibility of profligate local authorities.
13. "It is wrong that residents of prudent spending areas should cross-subsidise the profligate."