profligately

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English

Etymology

From profligate +‎ -ly.

Adverb

profligately (comparative more profligately, superlative most profligately)

  1. In a profligate manner.
    • 1980, Sims, Christopher A.: Macroeconomics and Reality, Econometrica 48.1, pp. 1-48; p. 15
      In the next section of this paper we discuss a general strategy for estimating profligately (as opposed to parsimoniously) parameterized macromodels
    • 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 233:
      For the purpose of defining a recursive competitive equilibrium, it is useful to note that it is also possible to define the state of the planner's problem more profligately as [sic] with associated decision rule and law of motion .

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