profligacy

基本解释

The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
這個産業已經成爲謊言、秘密以及浪費納稅人錢財的代名詞。
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.
這種姿態有助於平凡政府肆意揮霍的罪名，也與民衆殘存的直覺一致——民衆直覺認爲工黨比保守黨更加注重公共服務。
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.
“多虧”首相佈朗在經濟景氣的時候肆意揮霍和過於樂觀，國際貨幣基金組織（IMF）預測2010年英國的政府開支佔其GDP的比重將會是二十國集團中最高的。

"Yes, it's redistribution, but it's redistribution based on energy profligacy and dependence, " says Kaiser.
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When Congress prefers profligacy—which is most of the time—they become little more than an inconvenience.
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But this kind of pork-barrel profligacy has helped keep Japan mired in semirecession for a decade.
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Profligacy is the spending of too much money or the using of too much of something.