Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of preventing or impeding.
- n. A hindrance; an obstacle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of going before; the state of preceding or being earlier; hence, an antecedent period of time.
- n. The act of anticipating or forestalling; an anticipation; provision made in advance.
- n. Precaution; a precautionary measure; a preventive.
- n. The act of hindering or rendering impossible by previous measures; effectual hindrance; restraint, as from an intended action; also, that which prevents; an obstacle; an obstruction or impediment.
- n. Jurisdiction.
- n. Prejudice; prepossession.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete The act of going, or state of being, before.
- n. obsolete Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks ; hence, precaution; forethought. --Hammond. Shak.
- n. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. --South.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The act of going, or state of being, before.
- n. obsolete Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought.
- n. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
- n. A Gallicism Prejudice; prepossession.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of preventing
Etymologies
- Compare French prévention (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Natural remedies tend to stress long-term prevention, which is ultimately better than an immediate, temporary cure.”
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“Meanwhile, the Yemenia Airways said that it will organize a rally to the French Embassy in Sana'a on Tuesday, against what they describe as the prevention of the French troops to the Yemeni divers from entering a large area where the airbus 310 wreckage is expected to be.”
“Other agencies covered in the OMB Watch report have approached rulemaking informed by the old adage, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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“Unless the incentives and rules are changed to give as many participants as possible a real stake in prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, and maximizing health and minimizing disease and injury, healthcare costs in America will never be brought under control.”
“Everyone agrees it should happen, but it never does because the people who would invest in prevention don't end up saving from the investment.”
“The best hope for stemming the spread of HIV lies in prevention, treatment and education.”
“It probably assuages some people suffering from extreme paranoia but we must not lose sight of the fact that prevention is always a far better and more effective course of action than control.”
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“Yes | No | Report from JOHN ANDERSON wrote 55 min 41 sec ago an ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure. sad and tragic, And easily avoided.”
“Chronic transfusion for stroke prevention is now the standard of care for sickle cell patients at high risk of stroke.”
“In an Orwellian trick, this is dubbed "prevention of injury" for his own protection.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prevention’.
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SEDE - military policy and diplomacy
military conflict, non-proliferation..., decommission, gun control, accept a ceasefir..., according to the ..., action plan, ad-hoc conciliati..., administrative co..., alliances, arms control, arms trade and 268 more...
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ECON - economic policy instruments
Towards a European banking union and common economic policy. Terms still warm and crispy from the corridors of legislation (summer 2012).
umbrella fund, Basel I & II, financial transac..., Keynesian reflati..., Lamfalussy procedure, Lamfalussy process, Solvency I & II, Tobin tax, carousel sanctions, prudential oversight, redemption fund, bail-in and 489 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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SEDE - military operations
hit, Iran-Iraq War, prevention, increase of readi..., replacement of wa..., rise of readiness, stabilisation, build up, basic training, defence procurement, force modernisation, full mobilisation and 387 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Legislationie: The Habeas Corpus Act ...
An act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas.
WHEREAS great delays have been used by sheriffs, gaolers and other offi...of the peace, the hand and seal of, signed and sealed, jurisdiction, hath, order, recognizances, cognizable, properly, city, county, gaol-delivery and 120 more...
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Words from "The Ghost Map"
"The Ghost Map", by steven Johnson, is a fascinating account of the (successful) investigation by two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, into the means by which cholera is transmitted, following t...
ghost map, epidemiology, dot map, voronoi diagram, index case, cholera, experimentum crucis, vibrio cholerae, microbe, germ theory, public health, animalcula and 61 more...
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Global Issues Vocabulary
Current vocabulary words for the 8th grade's Global Issues unit.
global warming, degradation, infectious, illiteracy, depletion, ecosystem, nation-state, self-serving, peacekeeping, poverty, conflict, prevention and 13 more...
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A new vocabulary
achievement gap, barriers, guidance, advocacy, benchmarks, boundaries, equity, microskills, self-disclosure, antiracist, facilitation, experiential and 41 more...
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