preventive
IPA: prɪvˈɛntɪv
noun
- (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- (dated) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- A contraceptive, especially a condom.
adjective
- Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- Carried out to deter military aggression.
- Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
- (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
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Examples of "preventive" in Sentences
- Women would not pay more than men and insurers would invest more in preventive care and care coordination.
- Page 27 them in because of the distance they've travelled, and they have what they call preventive maintenance.
- It is the first time the commission - the top U.N. human rights watchdog - has undertaken what it terms preventive diplomacy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Edwards: "End 'preventive war' doctrine" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Edwards: "End \'preventive war\' doctrine "'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: John Edwards talks about ending Bush\'s" preventative war doctrine "and how to diplomatically engage with Iran. '
- 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.
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