Usually means: Careful, sensible in managing resources.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word prudent:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prudent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prudent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prudent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prudent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prudent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prudent, prudent: Wordnik
  7. prudent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prudent: Wiktionary
  9. prudent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prudent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prudent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prudent: Dictionary.com
  13. prudent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Prudent (name), Prudent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Prudent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. prudent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. prudent: Rhymezone
  18. Prudent, prudent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. prudent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. prudent: Free Dictionary
  21. prudent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. prudent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prudent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. prudent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prudent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prudent: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prudent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prudently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.
adjective:  Practically wise, judicious, shrewd.
adjective:  Frugal, economical.

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