prudence
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General noun
The quality of being careful and sensible in judgement and conduct.
Financial prudence during the good years let the charity survive the lean ones.
Business noun
Careful good judgement that avoids unnecessary risks.
His prudence in holding cash reserves looked overcautious until the downturn vindicated it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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