- the act of preventing
- means of preventing
noun
Prevention is the act of stopping something or ensuring something does not happen.
Stopping teenagers from using drugs is an example of drug prevention.
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noun
The act of preventing something: the prevention of illness.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural preventions)
- The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
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Sentence Examples
- - Wet weather as before, to the prevention of our operations.
- The Cattle Diseases Prevention Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict.
- A bill for the better prevention of pellagra was introduced in the spring of 1902.
- Every power, is, therefore, rightfully interested in the prevention of such exclusion.
- For the next sixty years an urgent question was the prevention of floods in the capital.
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