prudential.

Concerned with careful judgment and protection against avoidable risks, especially in financial oversight.

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Words that belong together

• prudential regulation
• prudential assessment

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Prudential regulation required the institution to maintain resources against specified risks.

The committee made a prudential assessment before accepting the long-term obligation.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Comparative more prudential; superlative most prudential where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic explanation, resource analysis, incentive analysis, comparison. Disciplines: economics, business, social science. Commonness: moderately common.