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Перевод: improvident

[прилагательное]
непредусмотрительный; расточительный; нерасчетливый

Тезаурус:

1. It must be protected against spendthrift or incompetent successors, against creditors and moneylenders, against improvident sales, and, until the Forfeiture Act 1870, against forfeiture for treason.
2. Improvident Costa Rica, which has lately been trying to behave better, was not treated in May 1990 with the respect accorded to Venezuela.
3. Malthus claimed that its introduction encouraged improvident early marriage, although evidence for this is difficult to find (Digby 1983).
4. This business was expanded by his son John Roberts, who also lent money at a vast interest rate to the tinners, who were traditionally improvident and poor.
5. For the new generation, providence meant looking ahead in this progressive sense; those who would not do so were classed as improvident.
6. Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton, nephew of her mother's first husband who'd been killed at Tobruk.
7. But this we can choose: either to break faith with millions of decent, proud, hardworking citizens, or to look with more realism on the others: the tramps, the ne'er-do-wells, the offenders, the improvident - "
8. Stripped of its deviousness, the doctrine can be interpreted to imply that "god" will supply the wants of the improvident by taking from the provident.
9. My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others' troubles (or of future danger to myself) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty (or to avoid or irrationally court danger) when I do become aware; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted.
10. Poverty makes economy impossible, not because the poor are improvident but because economy is always a matter of scale - bulk buying demands bulk incomes.
11. These virtues were contrasted by Octavia Hill, the housing reformer and champion of the cadet principle, with the "ill educated, dirty, quarrelsome, drunken, improvident, unrefined, possibly dishonest, possibly vicious" environment from which the cadets were to be recruited.
12. Both Evangelicals and Utilitarians wished to impose the middle-class way of life upon their thriftless fellow men, whose poverty, they believed, was in great measure attributable to improvident and ungodly habits, such as addiction to drink and raising illegitimate children.
13. In 1907 Sidney Webb, in a tract entitled (significantly) The Decline in the Birth Rate , wrote: "In order that the population may be recruited from the self-controlled and foreseeing members of each class, rather than those who are feckless and improvident, we must alter the balance of remuneration in favour of the childproducing family", and therefore he concluded that "we shall indeed have to face the problem of the systematic "endowment of motherhood" and place this most indispensable of all professions upon an honourable economic basis" (Webb, 1907).