imprudence

imprudent | Business English

imprudent
adjective
/ɪmˈpruːdənt/ukus
not wise, and likely to have bad results:
imprudent borrowing/lending
imprudent to do sthThey were advised that it would be imprudent to become over-reliant on foreign markets.

imprudence

noun[ U ]/ɪmˈpruːdəns/
Newspapers warned of the perils of fiscal imprudence in a country running a $20 billion public sector deficit.

imprudently

adverb
an imprudently managed firm

Examples of imprudent

imprudent
Second, the principle allows as prudent exactly the actions that we are most prone to judge imprudent.
The regulations may be used as a safeguard against imprudent companies, and as a signal to the market and consumers.
Nevertheless, this time the problem is considered a one-model problem (p. 107) and people constructing only the initial model are not viewed as imprudent.
The effect is to get the prudent provider to underwrite the imprudent.
Furthermore, imprudent use of the environmental resource base may irreversibly reduce the capacity for generating material production in the future.
First, it can serve as a non-rights-based reason for our moral duty to aid an imprudent person.
As with the previous argument, we can't be completely certain that such a deception would be immoral, or that it would be imprudent.
It would thus be most imprudent to trust to any overtures, let alone any agreement made with revolutionaries.
We have considered three main views of the just way to address the needs of the imprudent.
The second point of clarification concerns the extent to which the forced redistribution view enforces the redress of an imprudent person's vulnerable predicament.
The costs that fall on the imprudent choosers themselves suffice to justify state prohibition of the grossly imprudent conduct.
In sum, the above objections remind us that revelation or communication of the complete truth about some matter may be imprudent in certain circumstances.
It would clearly be imprudent to attempt to generalize to other settings and other types of learners on the basis of the present findings.
This article examines how a just society must address the needs of its imprudent members.
Prudence is clearly not only about the self - one can be imprudent in caring for someone, or in formulating or implementing policies for the common good, for example.
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