cautiousness

cautious | American Dictionary

cautious
adjective
us/ˈkɔ·ʃəs/
not acting quickly in order to avoid risks; careful:
Most doctors are cautious about advising you to have surgery.
Auto companies are taking a cautious approach toward introducing electric cars.

cautiously

adverbus/ˈkɔ·ʃəs·li/
She was in the habit of driving cautiously.

cautious | Business English

cautious
adjective
uk /ˈkɔːʃəs/us
very careful about what you do or say and unwilling to take risks because you want to avoid possible problems:
be cautious about sth/about doing sthBusinesses have become cautious about spending on technology.
a cautious approach/strategyHe said the group would continue its cautious approach to expanding in Japan until it better understood the market.
 cautious optimism
a feeling that you can be hopeful about a situation although you realize that there still could be problems:
There is cautious optimism for a successful outcome for the financial year.

cautiously

adverb
Textile and garment companies in China reacted cautiously to the announcement.

Examples of cautious

cautious
Accordingly, their physicians are generally more cautious and less inclined to 'switch-over' to new brands unless proved to be absolutely essential or decidedly superior.
Coupled with the volume's empirical breadth, this cautious optimism helps make the authors' arguments both honest and valuable.
We must be cautious in attributing motivation to an observed behaviour.
The political decision process in 1992 resulted in a pragmatic and cautious approach when spelling out the details of the reform.
We must therefore be cautious in the conclusions we draw from this review of notes of patient contacts.
Second, the author maintains a direct yet cautious tone throughout the book.
With oral sources, in particular, the historian must remain extremely cautious.
We need, then, to be cautious about approaching such marginal annotation as obvious evidence of reading practice and intellectual meaning.
While cautious of the sample size underpinning these conclusions, it was also found that consistent trustees had at least undergraduate education and relevant professional qualifications.
We were cautious with our dosing schedule f or fear of prec ipitating an ag itated delir ium but observed no evidence to suggest this.
We must be cautious, however, since the plan type affects the types of workers attracted to a firm.
In such cases, a cautious tokenizer produces alternative segmentations postponing the decision to a later processing stage.
In our numerical example, the cost of allowing the other central bank to learn dominates so optimal monetary policy strategy is cautious.
Active learning in the absence of coordination gives central banks an incentive to follow cautious strategies, thereby slowing learning and avoiding conflict.
In providing an answer to the other two questions she has a tendency (wisely) to be cautious and equivocates (p. 251).
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