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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prevention
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crime prevention
▪ The police can give you advice on crime prevention.
prevention is better than cureBritish English, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure American English (= used to say that it is better to prevent illness than to cure it)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
effective
▪ They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme.
▪ Vitamin supplements, which cost just a few cents a dose, are a highly effective means of prevention.
▪ The only effective poaching prevention strategy was systematically identifying and nurturing one's most vulnerable executives.
▪ Although our understanding is far from complete, there are many valuable pointers to the elements likely to be necessary in effective prevention.
new
▪ Labour say they would increase policing levels still further, and the Liberal Democrats are calling for new crime prevention programmes.
▪ Such researchers often come up with very different conclusions from those of the new prevention thinkers.
▪ However, a new generation of prevention activists has moved in the opposite direction.
▪ But many new prevention leaders carry their critique much further.
primary
▪ We agree that primary prevention is the ideal, though its effects are limited in practice.
▪ This type of primary prevention is clearly welcomed by all involved with mentally handicapped people and the public at large.
▪ We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide.
▪ Indeed, the exercise of such anticipatory coping was one of Caplan's central notions for primary prevention.
▪ Targets for intervention. Primary prevention is thus directed towards the improvement of social conditions, in order to avert client status.
▪ We hope that primary prevention of attempted suicide will not continue to be solely a focus for conjecture.
▪ Again the emphasis is on primary prevention of the misuse of drugs and on preventing young people from being drawn in.
secondary
▪ When I was first taught cardiology there was little evidence for the efficacy of secondary prevention after myocardial infarction.
▪ This type of secondary prevention does however raise serious and controversial issues about social and medical ethics.
▪ The second form, secondary prevention, concerns the child when it is in the womb.
▪ Lasting success of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for biliary stones will depend on advances in secondary prevention.
▪ They refer to secondary prevention as early detection and medical treatment or selective abortion.
▪ In addition, secondary prevention could also be applied to the alleviation of social and psychological difficulties which might lead to attempts.
▪ Naturally, one would assume that these two aspects of secondary prevention go hand in hand.
tertiary
▪ There are three main types of prevention, known as primary, secondary and tertiary.
▪ So called tertiary prevention - paediatric surgery - can provide an almost 100% effective solution in at least another 25% of cases.
▪ Finally, tertiary prevention aims to reduce the duration and severity of the disease which is established.
■ NOUN
accident
▪ After all our lectures, they still don't think accident prevention applies to them.
▪ A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
▪ Individual effort is also vital. Accident prevention can not be viewed only in terms of the elimination of hazards.
aids
▪ Our first and subsequent courses have been a success and are part of a long-term commitment to AIDS prevention.
▪ The connections between environmentalism and AIDS prevention are more than merely rhetorical.
▪ Gay groups and AIDS prevention groups are beginning to experiment with different kinds of messages.
▪ Yet it is rarely posed as a major issue of AIDS prevention.
▪ Educators feared these young men were missing the AIDS prevention message.
▪ If the world of AIDS prevention worked that way, the process might look like this.
▪ But there are virtually no powerful forces within the gay AIDS prevention movement arguing for prevention first.
▪ The enterprise of AIDS prevention in the gay world has strenuously avoided any detailed examination of these mechanisms.
campaign
▪ It will also be used to promote the force's vehicle crime prevention campaign in April and May.
▪ Card Watch, the banking industry's plastic card fraud prevention campaign, issues top tips for travelling abroad.
▪ The government today launched a drug prevention campaign.
▪ As was the case with the problems of contraception and abortion, prevention campaigns tend to be short-lived.
cancer
▪ They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme.
▪ The National Cancer Institute has recently published new easy-to-understand, large-print publications on cancer prevention and treatment.
▪ Several trials that looked at cancer prevention were not considered within the scope of this analysis.
crime
▪ Talk about crime and crime prevention.
▪ Last month, the governor's office announced the county would get $ 10.3 million from a statewide crime prevention act.
▪ The Mazda 323 1.6i fastback is to be used mainly by crime prevention officers for visiting schools and exhibitions.
▪ It will also be used to promote the force's vehicle crime prevention campaign in April and May.
▪ Crime and criminal justice Crime prevention has received increasing recent attention from researchers and policy makers.
▪ The only publicly funded workers professionally concerned with crime prevention are police crime prevention officers.
▪ I can confirm, however, that on 11 February I shall announce a major campaign - car crime prevention year.
▪ They offer confidential counselling, basic crime prevention advice and help with practical details like insurance claims.
drug
▪ I visited the drug prevention team in Newham only last week.
▪ D, a leading drug prevention expert who worked on the report.
▪ The government today launched a drug prevention campaign.
▪ The work of the drug prevention teams deserves the support of the whole House.
fire
▪ In my view, the provision of adequate fire prevention and fire fighting measures should be Venice's top priority.
▪ Also patron of architects, builders, dying, fire prevention, founders, miners, and stonemasons.
▪ The research does suggest that in Dermakot at least they can incorporate our findings into their fire prevention methods and techniques.
▪ He felt unhappy and downgraded in his current non-operational job as a fire prevention officer in the service.
▪ Also patron of fire prevention, nursing homes, and spinsters.
▪ The building was purpose designed for making plastic drums and as consequence has fire prevention facilities to a particularly high standard.
flood
▪ But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.
officer
▪ The Mazda 323 1.6i fastback is to be used mainly by crime prevention officers for visiting schools and exhibitions.
▪ The only publicly funded workers professionally concerned with crime prevention are police crime prevention officers.
▪ There is, however, no systematic knowledge of what crime prevention officers do.
▪ He felt unhappy and downgraded in his current non-operational job as a fire prevention officer in the service.
▪ But crime prevention officers say the John Radcliffe's a difficult place to protect.
▪ It also has the highest number of community relations and crime prevention officers - 192.
policy
▪ The Labour party has a crime prevention policy and a youth crime prevention policy which will begin to deal with that problem.
pollution
▪ In this day and age almost all of the most positive and far-reaching developments in pollution prevention originate in industry.
program
▪ It is doubtful that any one of the described prevention programs - in isolation - will effectively prevent abuse.
▪ The tobacco tax is earmarked by an initiative for health and prevention programs.
▪ But it may take many years before we learn how much of an impact prevention programs have been able to make.
▪ That is why he is working to design a series of prevention programs.
programmes
▪ The numbers of deaf children are decreasing, and some causes such as rubella can be completely eradicated as medical prevention programmes improve.
▪ Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes.
▪ It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes.
▪ Labour say they would increase policing levels still further, and the Liberal Democrats are calling for new crime prevention programmes.
▪ The working party, chaired by James Morgan, studied crime prevention programmes.
strategy
▪ The only effective poaching prevention strategy was systematically identifying and nurturing one's most vulnerable executives.
▪ So it appeared obvious that in the absence of a known cause, any rational prevention strategy must involve partner reduction.
▪ Whether human, environmental or financial risks are involved, prevention strategies are being shown to be good business.
▪ Moreover, if merely making post-exposure prevention available can threaten conventional prevention strategies, advertising only risks further undermining them.
▪ Together, they are the two key elements of a comprehensive prevention strategy.
▪ After prevention strategies are formulated and implemented, they must be evaluated for effectiveness.
trial
▪ That the ethics of prevention trials is often a resource driven argument is tacitly assumed but rarely explicitly stated.
▪ They will use the results to better tailor prevention trials to specific cultures within ethnic groups.
▪ Underlying principles Four principles therefore underlie randomised prevention trials.
▪ Full-scale prevention trials will then start.
worker
▪ Many prevention workers came to believe that there was virtually no chance that prevention could contain the epidemic.
■ VERB
develop
▪ However, no services have been developed explicitly for the prevention of suicide attempts.
▪ Over time, you should be able to recognize your own asthma triggers and develop a prevention or treatment plan for them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ AIDS prevention efforts
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Develop and implement guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in immunosuppressed persons.
▪ In my view, the provision of adequate fire prevention and fire fighting measures should be Venice's top priority.
▪ So it appeared obvious that in the absence of a known cause, any rational prevention strategy must involve partner reduction.
▪ The Labour party is fully committed to health promotion and prevention care.
▪ The Secretary of State's crime prevention committee is considering how information should be collected and will continue to do so.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prevention

Prevention \Pre*ven"tion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vention.]

  1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [Obs.]

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

  2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. [Obs.]
    --Hammond. Shak.

  3. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
    --South.

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

  4. Prejudice; prepossession. [A Gallicism]
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prevention

mid-15c., "action of stopping an event or practice," from Middle French prévention and directly from Late Latin praeventionem (nominative praeventio) "action of anticipating," noun of action from past participle stem of praevenire (see prevent).

Wiktionary
prevention

n. 1 (context obsolete English) The act of going, or state of being, before. 2 (context obsolete English) anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks; hence, precaution; forethought. 3 The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting. 4 (Medicine) Any measure such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc., intended to limit health-related risks.

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WordNet
prevention

n. the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: bar]

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Wikipedia
Prevention

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Prevention (magazine)

Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, started in 1950, and published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The range of subjects includes food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, and cooking. It was founded by J. I. Rodale and is currently led by Editorial Director Anne Alexander. It is one of the largest magazines in the world, with a circulation of 2 million editions around the world, and over 10,000,000 readers a month.

Prevention (album)

Prevention is the second studio album by Scottish indie rock band De Rosa, released on 2 March 2009 on both Chemikal Underground and Gargleblast Records. Regarding the album, guitarist Chris Connick stated that the album features "ten tracks of misery and place, from Lanarkshire," and noted that it "differ[ed] sonically from Mend quite a bit. The songs are more layered, and we used a lot more electronics and beats on this album. There’s also more emphasis on the album's coherence as a whole, and I think it plays better as a collection of songs than Mend did."

Vocalist and guitarist Martin Henry stated that: "the scratchy, falling-apart sound of parts of Mend frustrates me sometimes, so with Prevention I wanted to make something that was prettier and heavier at the same time. We were more interested in layers of vocals and instruments, with an emphasis on percussion, not just guitar. There are definitely a lot more keyboards on this one too.

The band worked with producer Andy Miller at Chem 19 recording studios in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Guest musicians on the album include Barry Burns of Mogwai and Robert Johnston of Life Without Buildings.

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Usage examples of "prevention".

It concerns not the prevention of all experimentation upon animals, but rather the abolition of its cruelty, its secrecy, its abuse.

The first society in America organized for the express purpose of prevention of cruelty in animal experimentation appears to have been the American Antivivisection Society, founded at Philadelphia in 1883.

An organization which more than any other has distinguished itself for persistent, unwearied, and vigorous attempts to secure reform by legal enactment is the Society for the Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation, organized in Brooklyn, New York, in 1907.

Referring to one of the Bills introduced by the Society for the Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation, Dr.

The malignity of the pestilence appeared more terrible because its victims knew no prevention and no remedy.

I wish to thank our local veterinarian, Gordon Pickering, for sharing a bit of his knowledge with me about parvovirus and its prevention and treatment.

Indeed, the distinction between prevention and punishment appears to have played little or no part in determining when picketing may be forbidden in labor disputes.

Conservation Association is to promote forest fire prevention, conservative forest management, reforesting of cut-over lands not more valuable for agriculture, improvement in taxation systems, preservation of stream flow, and all other things comprehended by forest conservation.

It concerns not the prevention of all experimentation upon animals, but rather the abolition of its cruelty, its secrecy, its abuse.

About two years ago, our Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals became possessed of the knowledge that it was still the practice in the schools of Anatomy and Physiology in France for lecturers and demonstrators to tie down cats, dogs, rabbits, etc.

It is an interesting fact that the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, founded by Henry Bergh, the first organization of its kind in America, joined in the demand for further investigation.

Chief Constable, wanting to know what other crime prevention measures could have been put in place for the cost of busting one high-profile bloke smoking a bit of dope in the privacy of his own home.

Indeed, the dominant discourses of AIDS prevention have been all about hygiene: We must avoid contact and use protection.

And there are, of course, other examples: the treatment of endocrinologic disorders with appropriate hormones, the prevention of hemolytic disease of the newborn, the treatment and prevention of various nutritional disorders, and perhaps just around the corner the management of Parkinsonism and sickle-cell anemia.

I accepted an offer at Salishan Graduate Institute and he took a job with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.