Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.
- adj. Carried out to deter expected aggression by hostile forces.
- adj. Preventing or slowing the course of an illness or disease; prophylactic: preventive medicine; preventive health care.
- n. Something that prevents; an obstacle.
- n. Something that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to prevent or hinder; guarding against or warding off something, as disease, injustice, loss, etc.
- n. That which goes before; an anticipation.
- n. That which prevents; that which constitutes an effectual check or insurmountable obstacle.
- n. Specifically, something taken, used, or done beforehand to ward off disease.
- n. Also preventative.
Wiktionary
- adj. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- adj. Carried out to deter military aggression.
- adj. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
- n. nonstandard A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- n. nonstandard A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- n. A contraceptive, especially a condom.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Going before; preceding.
- adj. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of.
- n. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
- adj. tending to prevent or hinder
- adj. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
- n. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- n. an agent or device intended to prevent conception
Examples
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“Among other things, you declared here at the end what you called the preventive war doctrine of Bush/Cheney, and that should go where it belongs, the trash heap of history.”
“Until the RezLine account, I hadn't dealt with any of what I called preventive analyses in over a year, and suddenly, within weeks of each other, I had two, and from two different clients.”
“It is the first time the commission - the top U.N. human rights watchdog - has undertaken what it terms preventive diplomacy.”
“Page 27 them in because of the distance they've travelled, and they have what they call preventive maintenance.”
“Many have continued to condemn the U.S. for what they call preventive war, or pre-emption, in the case of the Iraqi invasion in 2003, calling it illegal, the unilateral invasion of a sovereign state without justification.”
“Their experiences and observations underscore why changing the health care system has proved so hard for presidents and policymakers: the complexity of the system, the pressure from chronic diseases, the shortfall in preventive care, the high costs, the competing demands — and the life-or-death stakes.”
“Women would not pay more than men and insurers would invest more in preventive care and care coordination.”
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“And it makes the largest investment ever in preventive care, because that is one of the best ways to keep our people healthy and our costs under control.”
“For nearly a decade now, we have stumbled around this issue, unwilling to confront the reality that we are engaging in preventive detention.”
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