A lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources.

synonym: shortsightedness.

Roget 460: neglect; carelessness etc. adj.; trifling etc. v.; negligence; omission, oversight, laches [Law], default; supineness etc. (inactivity) 683; inattention etc. 458; nonchalance etc. (insensibility) 823; imprudence, recklessness etc. 863; slovenliness etc. (disorder) 59, (dirt) 653; improvidence etc. 674; noncompletion etc. 730; inexactness etc. (error) 495.    paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric). trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber.    ... show more

Roget 674: non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation; inculture^†, inconcoction^†, improvidence.    immaturity, crudity; rawness etc. adj.; abortion; disqualification.    [Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded garden; neglect etc. 460.    rough copy etc. (plan) 626; germ etc. 153; raw material etc. 635.    improvisation etc. (impulse) 612.    ... show more

Dutch: zorgeloosheid
Polish: nieoszczędność