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Adjective: provident  pró-vi-dunt
  1. Providing carefully for the future
    "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education"
     
  2. Careful in regard to your own interests
    "wild squirrels are provident"

See also: careful, farseeing, farsighted, forehanded, foresighted, foresightful, forethoughtful, long, longsighted, presbyopic, prospicient, provide, providence, providently, prudent, thrifty

Antonym: improvident

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