prudential

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(UK) IPA^(key): /pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃəl/, [pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃl̩]
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(US) IPA^(key): /pɹuˈdɛn.ʃəl/, [pɹuˈdɛn.ʃl̩]
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɹʉːˈden.ʃəl/, [pɹʉːˈden.ʃl̩]

prudential (comparative more prudential, superlative most prudential)

Characterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation. [from 15th c.]
- 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:
  a prudential line of conduct
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 206:
  Matrimony had always been a matter of prudential calculation.
Of a person: exercising prudence; cautious. [from 17th c.]
Advisory; superintending or executive.
a prudential committee

prudential (plural prudentials)

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