Prevention

English

Noun

Prevention (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.

   The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. --Bacon.

2. (obsolete) Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks ; hence, precaution; forethought. --Hammond. Shak.
3. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. --South.

   Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. --Shakespeare.

Verbs for Prevention

effect—; employ—; investigate—; —averts; —baffles; —blankets; —chokes; —cramps; —disconcerts; —disheartens; —dooms; — encounters; —hampers; —impedes; —nips; —stifles; —thwarts.

Thesaurus

Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abortion, anticipation, arrest, arrestation, arresting, avoidance, avoiding, avoiding reaction, balk, balking, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, blocking, check, checking, circumvention, contraband, control, controlling, curb, curbing, debarment, debarring, defense mechanism, delay, delaying, denial, determent, deterrence, disallowance, discouragement, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, embargo, enjoining, equivocation, escape, estoppel, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, exclusion, foiling, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, foreclosure, forestalling, forestallment, frustrating, frustration, getting around, halt, halting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, impedance, impeding, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibiting, inhibition, injunction, intercepting, interception, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, interdictum, jink, law, mitigating, mitigation, neutrality, no-no, nonintervention, noninvolvement, obstructing, obstruction, obviation, preclusion, prohibiting, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribing, proscription, refraining, refusal, rejection, repression, restraining, restraint, restrictive covenants, retardation, ruling out, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, slowing, statute, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, the runaround, thwarting, zigzag, zoning, zoning laws

Etymology

Compare French prévention

prevent + -tion

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹɪˈvɛnʃən/, SAMPA: /pr`I"vEnS@n/

Translations

The act of going, or state of being, before

Anticipation

Serbo-Croatian: anticipacija (sh)

The act of preventing or hindering

Finnish: ennaltaehkäisy, ennaltaehkäiseminen, ehkäisy, ehkäiseminen, torjunta, torjuminen

German: Prävention (de) f. Serbo-Croatian: prevencija (sh), preveniranje (sh), predupređivanje (sh), predohrana (sh)

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German: Prävention f. Portuguese: prevenção f.

Telugu: నివారణ (nivaaraNa) Spanish: prevención f.

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Finnish

Noun

prevention

1. genitive singular form of preventio