0 doing something dangerous and not worrying about the risks and the possible results: --
1 showing a lack of care about risks or danger, and acting without thinking about the results of your actions: --
2 taking risks and not caring about the possible dangers: --
reckless borrowing/lending/spending The government wants to crack down on decades of reckless lending by banks to unprofitable companies.
They made increasingly reckless investments.
First, people are prone to assent to reckless and dangerous undertakings.
There's no reason to tolerate wreckless driving in place of reckless driving.
She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
The combination of reckless lending, deteriorating business conditions, and ballooning foreign debt obligations was devastating.
But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as the masque contains nothing but pure sycophancy.
It would have been politically reckless simply to end the state programme without honouring claims already earned.
For any cautious scholar, this kind of speculating appears reckless.
However, this principle required more flexibility in the post-cold war era when many reckless and even brutal belligerent factions fought each other in anarchy.
