Improvidence
111dissipation — [n1] amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess bender*, binge, blowout, bust*, celebration, circus, distraction, diversion, divertissement, gratification, party, recreation, self indulgence, tear*, toot*, wingding*; concepts 363,386… …
112extravagance — [n] indulgence; waste absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake*, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending,… …
113waste — [n1] spending, use without thought decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter*, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, lost opportunity*, misapplication, misuse,… …
114neglect — May mean to omit, fail, or forbear to do a thing that can be done, or that is required to be done, but it may also import an absence of care or attention in the doing or omission of a given act. And it may mean a designed refusal, indifference,… …
115neglect — May mean to omit, fail, or forbear to do a thing that can be done, or that is required to be done, but it may also import an absence of care or attention in the doing or omission of a given act. And it may mean a designed refusal, indifference,… …
116wards of admiralty — Seamen are sometimes thus designated, because, in view of their general improvidence and rashness, and though they are not technically incapable of contracting, their contracts are treated like those of fiduciaries and beneficiaries, and if there …
117culpable neglect — The neglect which exists where the loss or damage can fairly be ascribed to carelessness, improvidence or folly. Waltham Bank v Wright, 90 Mass (8 Allen) 121, 122. Under ordinary circumstances, the failure of the creditor to discover the death of …
118precarious circumstances — A desperate financial condition. A financial condition approaching insolvency or bankruptcy. The circumstances of an executor are said to be precarious only when his conduct and character present such evidence of improvidence or recklessness in… …
119spendthrift trust — A trust created to provide a fund for the maintenance of the beneficiary which shall be secure against his improvidence or incapacity. Huestis v Manley, 110 Vt 413, 8 A2d 644. A trust which restrains either voluntary or involuntary alienation by… …
120improvident — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking care for the future. DERIVATIVES improvidence noun improvidently adverb …
