Used in a Sentence

prudently

How to use prudently in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for prudently.

Editorial note

The idea is that once you get rich, you invest "prudently" and grow your wealth. You don't bet it all on the big problem that's probably impossible.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

in a prudent manner; "I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom."

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of prudently gathered in one view.

adverb

in a prudent manner; "I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom."

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prudently.

adverb

in a prudent manner; "I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom."

Example sentences

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The idea is that once you get rich, you invest "prudently" and grow your wealth. You don't bet it all on the big problem that's probably impossible.

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Node_id=1099194 which has an autodelete flag and prudently ignore symlinks.

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The best thing you can do is acknowledge its presence and build your defenses by prudently saving and spending.

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, then let the growth rate\nincrease, prudently. I contacted a lot of VCs and slowly\nlearned what they wanted if only\nfrom what they were silent about\nthat they didn't like.

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Here's a simple question with profound implications: How prudently do people use other people's money? Here's another: If people can't be fired, will they strive to do a good job anyway?

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How prudently do people use other people's money? That generalizes to "how well do people make decisions affecting others".

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I think what remains to be seen is what sort of interation this enables, which prudently I suppose I'd say its too early to tell. Conservatively I'd say the numbers are against it.

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When I suggested that it could be fixed if approached prudently, I was shot down. When I suggested that the developers read a book on better development practices, I was shot down.

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And anyway, usually interest on refis are lower than what you can get prudently investing the money.

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Overall, I don't think I've done anything stupid but I wouldn't trust PushBullet to anything you consider prudently private.

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And if Citibanks failure led the depositors at Bank of America to get nervous and withdraw their money, then BoA would be at risk even if it had been prudently managed up until the crisis. And then BoAs and Wells Fargos creditors...

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But that doesn't mean you prudently avoid possible life-altering consequences. It's not the generation's views, but the fact that you're younger and have a sense of invincibility.

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If the company instead retains and prudently invests that money, the company in essence is able to generate a return on money that would have been payed as taxes. Over the long haul, that "float" is extremely valuable.

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Meanwhile there are plenty of actions that are illegal yet affect nobody else that can be performed prudently and thoughtfully. Also, any observably-broken traffic light can and should be treated as a stop sign.

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It just happens, this time, to be the NSA, but it could be any government, or even organised crime, and the only ways to stop all of them are by acting prudently in the first instance.

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If other VC deliver higher value for their clients than we do for ours because we cautiously and prudently stand on the sidelines, then we stand to lose the confidence of our clients. But I do not understand why anyone would rely on the statements of founders to determine who else may or may not be on board as investors.

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While a good post, the real issue is that non technical managers of technical projects is quickly becoming more of a risk than many projects can prudently accept. The old, and unfair, characterization of programmers as smelly trolls that can't handle client interactions is more of a crutch for fools than a reality.

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In fact, the process of becoming a millionnaire is quite boring and unglamorous; invest prudently, cut expenses, don't buy new cars, have a modest mortgage, etc. Very few of the millionnaires interviewed in the book "got rich quick".

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We're not talking about prudently investigating potentially useful new technologies or inventing transformatively useful new tools. We're talking about using the latest hot NoSQL database without worrying about its appropriateness, or writing your own web framework just because.

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Warren Buffet started his economic empire through his insurance company and his ability to prudently invest the float it generated. For the majority of companies I would assume it is still cheaper to buy insurance than it is to self-fund since they do not have the actuarial or investment expertise that many insurance companies have built up over the years.

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I'm sure there's a threshold beyond which you just don't care, when you already have enough money to do everything you could possibly want, but whenever I've written a check for hundreds of thousands of dollars to the government I think "well, that probably would've paid for the college education of one of my kids" or "well, invested prudently that would've let me retire years earlier." I've also thought "huh, I'm getting exactly the same services as everybody else but paying ridiculous amounts of money for them."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use prudently in a sentence?

The idea is that once you get rich, you invest "prudently" and grow your wealth. You don't bet it all on the big problem that's probably impossible.

What does prudently mean?

in a prudent manner; "I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom."

What part of speech is prudently?

prudently is commonly used as adverb.