Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being preventable; the possibility of prevention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being preventable.
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- noun uncountable The condition of being
preventable - noun countable The extent to which something is preventable
Etymologies
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Examples
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It blinds us to their frequency and preventability.
Larry Cohen: For Want of a Crosswalk, a Life was Lost Larry 2011
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It blinds us to their frequency and preventability.
Larry Cohen: For Want of a Crosswalk, a Life was Lost Larry 2011
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These consumer-driven state initiatives led to local media coverage with patient stories that put a human face on infection statistics, education about their preventability and a demand for accountability.
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The lack of material wealth among many Africans does not confer license to dress informally but rather an imperative to collect their limited clothing into style and preventability.
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I know it seems a bit out of left field, but the destruction and the preventability of at least a large amount of the destruction wrought by Katrina seems indicative of the need to a concerted and national effort at rebuilding infra-structure in this country.
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They had been through it with his mom three years before, but not with this kind of violence, not with this kind of… stupidity, this kind of preventability.
The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004
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They had been through it with his mom three years before, but not with this kind of violence, not with this kind of… stupidity, this kind of preventability.
The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004
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And really create this mentality of preventability.
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Diseases, caused by absence of vitamins from food, 42; carried by mosquitoes and flies, 71; caused by focal infection, 82; preventability of, 135-136; relation between consumption of alcohol and increase in degenerative,
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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An inquiry in May 2009 by the Commons intelligence and security committee into the preventability of the attacks noted that the picture of Tanweer shown to Babar was of "poor quality".
The Guardian World News Esther Addley 2011
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