• (British) IPA: /pɹuːˈdɛnʃ(ə)l/

prudential

1. Characterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation. [from 15th c.]
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662 ↗:

   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 206:

     Matrimony had always been a matter of prudential calculation.

2. Of a person: exercising prudence; cautious. [from 17th c.]
3. Advisory; superintending or executive.

   a prudential committee

prudential (plural prudentials)

1. (archaic, mostly, in the plural) A matter requiring prudence.
   • 1853, George Godfrey Cunningham, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen (volume 2, page 426)

     I believe few men knew more of the art of policy and self-interested prudentials, but never man so little practised them.