Prudent
prudent (adjective) - careful and using good judgement
imprudent (adjective) - not prudent
prudence, imprudence (nouns)
prudent management
prudent financial management
financially prudent
financially imprudent
a prudent decision
the prudent professional
a prudent way of managing things
like any prudent business...
prudent to secure our involvement in the project at an early stage
found it prudent to acquire the services of a lawyer at this point
seem prudent
think it prudent to go slowly
prudent to get some expert advice first
considered it prudent to telephone first
considered it prudent to silently leave
considered it prudent to pay it a personal visit
seemed neither necessary nor prudent
went further than was prudent or necessary
a prudent and dignified withdrawal from colonial responsibility
swift but prudent action
prudence and moderation
a learned and prudent man
a prudent golfer
committed to prudent oil exploration
it would be prudent to apply for permission first
it would be prudent for X to Y
practices continually reviewed to ensure that they are prudent and reasonable in the prevailing social and economic circumstances
enthusiasm to raise points which prudent men, a little weary of what they considered to be rhetoric, tended to suppress
Example sentences:
* It might be prudent to secure our involvement in the project at an early stage.
* The public sector itself, like any prudent business, will continue to sell assets which it no longer needs.
* This might be regarded as prudent common sense.
* It is always prudent to get some expert advice before acting.
* With the economy hovering on the brink of a recession, it would be financially imprudent to make any investments now.
* All our credit assessment practices, in particular our credit scoring techniques, are continually reviewed to ensure that they are prudent and reasonable in the prevailing social and economic circumstances.
* It is wrong that residents of prudent spending areas should cross-subsidise the profligate.
* It would be prudent for those Unix vendors who have not already made the switch to take a strong look at OSF.
* However, it is prudent to become aware of the warning signs in case you have problems.
* It wasn't prudent for him to have anymore of that delicious desert.
* He had not been altogether honest with the parents regarding his job situation and considered it prudent to steal silently away to his room, rather than construct explanations for his early return from work.
* The question whether a landlord can legally enter the facilities is not clear, it would be prudent to apply for permission first.
* We are committed to prudent oil exploration and will direct efforts to ventures which offer significant potential.
* Stretching it further by setting up trading posts inland seemed neither necessary nor prudent, so a network of Indian traders grew up which took the Company's goods inland.
* Nevertheless, it may be prudent to provide expressly for the payment of rent where, for example, the property remains empty while the tenant is seeking to assign his lease.
* To require six cities virtually to embark on building an Olympic complex, five of which won't be needed, doesn't look a prudent way of managing things.
* The producer or service provider does too, and the first thing any prudent producer does is look to the quality of his raw material.
* The prudent gardener takes as much care with his produce once picked as when growing, and saves seed in order to obtain plants for free
* So it was only on rare occasions that the issue of local sovereignty arose: usually when a person, a single individual, got carried away by indignation or by enthusiasm to raise points which prudent men, a little weary of what they considered to be rhetoric, tended to suppress.
* April in this country is frequently a month when a prudent golfer will wear at least one more sweater than in January.
* That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff, a solicitor of Blagrave Street.
* In view of the Duchess of York's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision.
* The Chief Justice did however stress that a by-law would not be held to be unreasonable simply because a particular judge thought that it went further than was prudent or necessary or convenient.
* Since the university was American funded and run, Colonel Mortimer had considered it prudent to pay it a personal visit as soon as was possible.
* Their influence declined only slowly after the war because British military operations continued around the world as Britain at first struggled to retain her empire, and then, after Suez, fought to bring about a prudent and dignified withdrawal from colonial responsibility.
