prudent

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cautious and vigilant
abundance
an abundance of cautionidiom
askance
attentive
attentively
diligence
diligent
diligent about something/doing something
discreet
due diligence
meticulously
meticulousness
mindful
minutely
narrowly
semi-conservative
slowly
snuffly
super-cautious
super-conservative

Examples of prudential

prudential
Statutory regulation played a relatively minor role in the prudential control of banks.
Prudential deliberators behind the veil of ignorance will realize that the resources necessary to protect their age-relative opportunity range differ at various stages of life.
Although both chapters on financial regulation are interesting, the conclusions are pretty standard : there is a call for a prudential regulation of banks.
Both the prudential solution and the presentaim view have serious problems accounting for those judgments.
Pressures to tighten the net of prudential supervision emerged after several failures of large central banks, particularly after the second oil crisis in 1979.
This, it should be noted, is not simply a prudential move, which acknowledges the pervasiveness of sentiments of cultural belonging and attempts to 'civilize' them.
Prudential regulation assures a gradual reduction of the financial system's risk, but not rising expected returns, especially for longterm assets.
Unless one denies that any such prudential decision is ever prudentially sound, there is no good reason to deny it of a finite wager.
By supposing that there are infinite utilities, the concepts of robustness and fragility are rendered useless as ways of distinguishing between prudential decisions.
This might be difficult to do, in light of (what we are supposing would be) obvious prudential reasons to choose the good.
It includes prudential regulation, regulation of intellectual property, accounting standards, anti-corruption regulation, and rules to crack down on money laundering.
How much must one value oneself to prevent lack of self-esteem from threatening one's prudential judgment?
This constitutes a reductio of the attempt to reconcile morality in any recognizable sense with prudential rationality.
Moral reasoning, when personal happiness is seriously considered below the surface of moral deliberation, becomes prudential reasoning.
Admittedly, this is a bit linguistically strained, since the attitudes in question are not in all cases attitudes the individual herself would label 'prudential'.
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