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prudential en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹʉːˈden.ʃəl/ (Australia)
• [pɹʉːˈden.ʃl̩] (Australia)
• /pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃəl/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /pɹuˈdɛn.ʃəl/ (US)
• [pɹuˈdɛn.ʃl̩] (US)
• [pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃl̩] (UK)

Etymology

From Latin prudentia + -al.

Meanings

1. Characterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation.
   • a prudential line of conduct 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
   • Matrimony had always been a matter of prudential calculation. 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 206:
2. Of a person: exercising prudence; cautious.
3. Advisory; superintending or executive.
   • a prudential committee

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Deriveds

prudentially · prudentialism · prudentialness · unprudential · prudentiality · prudentialist · antiprudential · macroprudential · microprudential

Translations (1)

es prudencial (prudent)

prudential en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹʉːˈden.ʃəl/ (Australia)
• [pɹʉːˈden.ʃl̩] (Australia)
• /pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃəl/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /pɹuˈdɛn.ʃəl/ (US)
• [pɹuˈdɛn.ʃl̩] (US)
• [pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃl̩] (UK)

Etymology

From Latin prudentia + -al.

Meanings

1. (archaic, in-plural) A matter requiring prudence.
   • I believe few men knew more of the art of policy and self-interested prudentials, but never man so little practised them. 1853, George Godfrey Cunningham, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, volume 2, page 426:

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