prudential

comparative more prudential · superlative most prudential

1. Characterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation.First known use 15th c.

   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

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   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.First known use 17th c.
3. Advisory; superintending or executive.

   a prudential committee

plural prudentials

1. archaicin pluralA 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