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prudent person

noun
if you act in the way a prudent person would then you behave in the same way that you would expect of a normal, reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances'It was reasonably foreseeable by a reasonably prudent person that, if he smoked, he risked damaging his health', the judge added.
Synonyms and Other Spellings
  • prudent man
  • prudent woman
  • ordinarily prudent person, man or woman
  • reasonably prudent person, man or woman
  • reasonable person, man or woman


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