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Definition of Prudential
1. Adjective. Arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters. "He abstained partly for prudential reasons"
Definition of Prudential
1. a. Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives.
2. n. That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
Definition of Prudential
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or arising from the use of prudence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prudential
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prudential
Literary usage of Prudential
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery by Charles King Whipple (1861)
"To the same effect we find, in a statement of the Prudential Committee in the
Annual Report for 1832—respecting the Choctaws just after their removal to ..."
2. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"INSTITUTIONAL AND Prudential SELECTION. Ill We may also assume that increased
segregate fecundity and vigor will make the multiplier for pure-breeds = 2, ..."
3. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"LAWSON AND HIS CRITICS in the entire capital stock of the Prudential Insurance
Company. ... A contract has been entered into between the Fidelity Trust ..."
4. Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"Institutional and Prudential Selection. Institutional and prudential selection
stand in the same relation to the other forms of reflexive selection that ..."
5. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"in the entire capital stock of the Prudential Insurance Company ... A contract
has been entered into between the Fidelity Trur Company and a large majority ..."
6. Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board of by Rufus Anderson (1861)
"TUB Prudential COMMITTEE. THE Prudential Committee has now twelve members, one
of whom is from the city of New York, and one from Brooklyn. ..."
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