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Prodigality

Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

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Dissipation 76% connected

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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Improvidence 76% connected

The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Prodigal 74% connected

Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or…

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Prodigal 74% connected

Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or…

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Extravagance 92% connected

A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

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Lavishness 92% connected

The quality or state of being lavish.

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Profligacy 92% connected

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dis…

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Abundance noun · 78% connection

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to qu…

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Affluence noun · 78% connection

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth.

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aggregate demand noun · 78% connection

The total amount households, firms and government want to spend in an economy.

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Anti-federalist noun · 78% connection

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution o…

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Consumption of materials noun · 78% connection

the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…

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Dispense noun · 78% connection

Expense; profusion; outlay.

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Economical adjective · 78% connection

Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of t…

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Economically adverb · 78% connection

With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.

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Economics noun · 78% connection

Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political economy, unde…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extravagance, expenditure, particularly, money, excessive.
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Economist noun · 78% connection

One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and with…

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Economize verb · 78% connection

To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.

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Economy noun · 78% connection

Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a h…

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Embezzle verb · 78% connection

To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.

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Fool-largesse noun · 78% connection

Foolish expenditure; waste.

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Frugal noun · 78% connection

Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, material…

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Frugality noun · 78% connection

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and ap…

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Gresham's Law noun · 78% connection

(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…

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Husband verb · 78% connection

To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.

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