0 careful and avoiding risks: --
[ + 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.
Again, if the distribution of the non-masslike enhancement is suspicious, for example, focal nodular clumped, ductal or linear, biopsy would be prudent.
At the same time, however, it is prudent to ask whether the text should be adopted for use.
These physicians refused based on a belief that they were not independent or that not all the requirements for prudent medical practice had been met.
The other fiscal rule announced was that over the cycle the public debt should be held at a stable and prudent level.
Taking the countries together on average, portfolios with prudent person rules have fewer bonds, and more equities and foreign assets, than those with quantitative restrictions.
Direct evidence for facultative adoption of less prudent host exploitation strategies (which require that new parasites can detect existing infections) has been difficult to obtain.
In other words, democratic responsibility requires that policy decisions are clearly defensible as being prudent and in the public interest.
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.