prudently

prudent | American Dictionary

prudent
adjective
us/ˈpru·dənt/
showing good judgment in avoiding risks and uncertainties; careful:
His decision was prudent and timely.

prudence

noun[ U ]us/ˈpru·dəns/
A little prudence would be appropriate.

prudent | Business English

prudent
adjective
uk /ˈpruːdənt/us
careful in the way that you make decisions or spend money so that you avoid unnecessary risks:
They insisted that the deal is fiscally prudent and would not put the city budget at risk.
prudent to do sthIt would be prudent to delay interest rate cuts until early next year.
prudent financial planning
ACCOUNTING
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.

prudently

adverb/ˈpruːdəntli/
Failure on the part of banks to act prudently has resulted in a global recession.

Examples of prudent

prudent
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.
In other words, democratic responsibility requires that policy decisions are clearly defensible as being prudent and in the public interest.
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.
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.
The other fiscal rule announced was that over the cycle the public debt should be held at a stable and prudent level.
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.
At the same time, however, it is prudent to ask whether the text should be adopted for use.
Again, if the distribution of the non-masslike enhancement is suspicious, for example, focal nodular clumped, ductal or linear, biopsy would be prudent.
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