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profligately

profligately adverb: in a profligate manner.

Adverb

profligately (comparative more profligately, superlative most profligately)

  1. In a profligate manner.
    • In the next section of this paper we discuss a general strategy for estimating profligately (as opposed to parsimoniously) parameterized macromodels[.]1980, Sims, Christopher A.: Macroeconomics and Reality, Econometrica 48.1, pp. 1-48; p. 15
    • 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 #92;tildeX#95;t#61;#92;left#91;#92;begin#123;array#125;#123;ccccc#125;#92;thetaamp;N#95;tamp;n#95;#123;t-1#125;amp;n#95;#12...2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 233

Forms of profligately

comparativemore profligately
superlativemost profligately

Origin of profligately

From profligate + -ly.

Questions about profligately

What does profligately mean?
Profligately means in a profligate manner.
What part of speech is profligately?
Profligately is an adverb.

Words near profligately in the dictionary

  1. proflazepam
  2. profligacies
  3. profligacy
  4. profligate
  5. profligated
  6. profligately
  7. profligateness
  8. profligates
  9. profligating
  10. profligation
  11. profligations

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