well-advised

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In general one is well-advised to speak to an attorney before going to HR for anything other than benefits questions.

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Quick take

Benefiting from careful prior advice or counsel.

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adjective

Benefiting from careful prior advice or counsel.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for well-advised.

adjective

Benefiting from careful prior advice or counsel.

Example sentences

In general one is well-advised to speak to an attorney before going to HR for anything other than benefits questions.

Consultants and pundits would be well-advised to begin seeking the next thing.

Anyone with marginal skills who wants to get a job as a 'data scientist' would be well-advised to do so before the music stops.

However, unless I misread this thread, the conversation wasn't about whether employee terminations were well-advised.

You would be well-advised to excise it from your...you.

If the United States (for example) caused its fishermen to do this, then the people of the United States would be well-advised to change this law, else they'll soon be out of fish.

Quote examples

Look out for the NIC "option rom" persistence module, too - you may be well-advised to do it from something really exotic that doesn't run x86, just in case!

(To put it another way, the author would be well-advised to recall the old military maxim, "Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals worry about logistics.") BTW Russians captured Crimea with 2 casualties, so much about 'not enough deaths'.