[ + to infinitive ] It's always prudent to read a contract carefully before signing it.
1 showing good judgment in avoiding risks and uncertainties; careful:
2 careful in the way that you make decisions or spend money so that you avoid unnecessary risks:
3 prudent accounting is based on the principle of not showing assets or profits to be greater than they might be, or losses to be smaller than they might be, in a company's accounts:
Normal prudent accounting principles require that prepayments should be written down where it can be seen that they will not be fully recoverable.
Because of the risk of early adult death or invalidity it was prudent for families to maximize the earning potential of all family members.
Instead, the government would act as an active and prudent purchaser, on behalf of the population, to select and contract with providers.
It is prudent for a patient to have an identification bracelet prior to getting out of the home unsupervised and becoming lost.
Second, the principle allows as prudent exactly the actions that we are most prone to judge imprudent.
These reasons make it more prudent to use straight line correspondences.
Until that time, it seems prudent to continue the push to find specific and reliable brain markers of this perplexing and diagnostically challenging disorder.
Good fiscal housekeeping became an obligation that (supposedly) governed the behaviour of prudent consumers, corporate managers and national governments alike.
A more prudent selection and use of antimicrobial agents, in both humans and animals, and a continuous surveillance of resistance are essential in the future.
