Prevention meaning

prĭ-vĕn'shən
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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The act of preventing something.

The prevention of illness.

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Means of preventing.
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The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.

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The act of preventing.
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Origin of prevention

  • prevent +"Ž -tion or equivalent. Compare French prévention.
    From Wiktionary

Prevention Sentence Examples

  • - Wet weather as before, to the prevention of our operations.

  • A bill for the better prevention of pellagra was introduced in the spring of 1902.

  • The Cattle Diseases Prevention Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict.

  • For the next sixty years an urgent question was the prevention of floods in the capital.

  • Every power, is, therefore, rightfully interested in the prevention of such exclusion.

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