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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
precaution
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as a safety precaution (=in order to prevent accidents from happening, when this is possible but not very likely)
▪ A fence was put around the lake as a safety precaution.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ There are certain precautions it seems wise to take while the crisis continues.
▪ You also need to be aware of certain precautions that should be taken in the handling, preparing and storing of food.
▪ There are certain precautions women should take during pregnancy, for instance, avoiding certain foods and being careful about contact with animals.
extra
▪ Owing to the thick fog all day long, we had to take extra precautions on the road parts of the walk.
▪ The company advises customers to take extra precautions if they must drive there.
▪ Take extra precautions where there is a risk of causing damage or annoyance to the public.
▪ Being aware that overdrinking is especially likely in particular situations and taking extra precautions at these times. 4.
▪ With 18 days to go, the Jockey Club warned owners to take extra precautions.
▪ Sickness, diarrhoea and some drugs may stop it working, and extra precautions must be used.
necessary
▪ It would be foolish to ignore the obvious signs of recession at home and not take the necessary defensive precautions.
▪ I know she would take the necessary safety precautions to not get shot.
▪ Workers need to understand how quickly human tissue freezes, and the necessary precautions to prevent its occurrence.
▪ Doctors warn patients and take necessary precautions.
proper
▪ Unfortunately, there are many accidents just waiting to happen if proper safety precautions aren't taken.
▪ If tubifex is fed, proper precautions should be taken.
▪ Only by being so aggressive will his patients learn to consult immediately, to take proper precautions and so on.
▪ Insurance companies understandably expect proper precautions to be taken for the security and safe storage of musical instruments.
▪ Allied Colloids is accused of failing to store dangerous substances safely and not taking proper fire precautions.
reasonable
▪ Since the defendants had therefore not taken all reasonable precautions, they had no defence.
▪ All reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that the advice and data given to readers is reliable.
▪ Given reasonable precautions and a small amount of money, cholera can be effectively fought.
▪ It was no defence that the sellers had taken all reasonable precautions as to hygiene.
▪ Alternatively, the statute may provide for the reasonable practicability of precautions.
▪ Please therefore take all reasonable precautions to protect yourself and your family whilst on holiday.
sensible
▪ Seemed like a sensible precaution to me.
▪ An easy-wipe plastic mat under the food bowl is therefore a sensible precaution.
▪ Again, professional financial advice on the advantages and disadvantages of this form of borrowing seems a sensible precaution against financial embarrassment.
▪ Provision of a stair guard, and secure door and window locks, are sensible precautions with children.
▪ When interviewing is employed, the use of multiple independent interviewers is a sensible precaution.
▪ People have taken very few sensible precautions to stop young male burglars breaking in.
▪ In truth, with sensible precautions, Morrissey could have easily travelled to the salon.
▪ Egerton went, taking the very sensible precaution of asking Mickey Skinner along as a bodyguard.
simple
▪ Nevertheless, it makes sense to take a few simple precautions.
▪ So the simple precaution of avoiding housing cattle alongside lambing ewes could be well worthwhile this spring.
▪ These simple precautions observed, Kirov relaxed and sat down on the edge of his small cot, smiling with relief.
▪ Resistance can be readily avoided by simple precautions as follows: 1.
▪ Most could be prevented by following simple safety rules or taking simple precautions.
▪ But take some simple security precautions before you use the Net for online financial transactions.
▪ You can easily reduce the risk by taking a few simple precautions.
▪ But assistant welfare executive Bob Westecott said owners could take simple precautions to prevent their horses being stolen.
special
▪ However, good results were obtained in the prototype circuit without any special precautions.
▪ This means the White House has not been required to undertake special safety precautions during the current water emergency, he said.
▪ If accepted by the shipping community, it will mean masters' taking special precautions in 15 sensitive areas around Britain.
▪ Unless you take special precautions, you will need to perform a soft or hard reset to escape from this situation.
▪ Postmen were told they might have to take special precautions when delivering mail to farms.
▪ Presumably he was there as a special precaution because of the Amal-Hezbollah fighting.
universal
▪ All employees regularly exposed to blood and other body fluids to which universal precautions apply should be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine.
wise
▪ It turned out to be a wise precaution.
▪ This wise precaution preserved the Garden for posterity.
▪ It follows that careful monitoring of patients for their susceptibility to depression before prescribing mood-altering drugs would be a wise precaution.
▪ Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
▪ It is a wise precaution to meet new clients, rather than to deal with them over the telephone or by correspondence.
▪ Carrying an ice axe is, however, a wise precaution.
▪ Ineffectual or not against lingering gases it seemed a wise precaution, even if it was only psychological.
▪ It is probably a wise precaution in view of allegations that the couple stole billions of dollars from their country.
■ NOUN
fire
▪ Rats are fewer, buildings drier and fire precautions more effective than in the past.
▪ And toy factories with pitifully inadequate fire precautions stay open.
▪ Allied Colloids is accused of failing to store dangerous substances safely and not taking proper fire precautions.
safety
▪ Unfortunately, there are many accidents just waiting to happen if proper safety precautions aren't taken.
▪ Immediate priorities should include improving facilities to deal with infectious agents that require high level microbiological safety precautions. iii.
▪ Her idea was to have a first-aid kit in the catering department as an essential safety precaution.
▪ The home-run fence at Southcrest Park has been taken down and replaced by orange cones, ostensibly as a safety precaution.
▪ Employees should also be given adequate training in safety precautions etc.
▪ This was considered a safety precaution, since the rods are hot in temperature as well as radioactive.
▪ And they always take the strictest safety precautions.
▪ This means the White House has not been required to undertake special safety precautions during the current water emergency, he said.
security
▪ This sort of book is regularly stolen, despite security precautions.
▪ But this was a Secret Service event with extraordinary security precautions.
▪ He can give you free advice on the security precautions that best suit you and your home.
▪ Even so, it set up a security precaution that had occurred to me when I'd seen the cylinder.
▪ Police are warning people living in shared houses to take security precautions to keep intruders out.
▪ At present as always, many security precautions are taken when Royalty travels by rail, which are classified.
▪ But take some simple security precautions before you use the Net for online financial transactions.
▪ This is a security precaution against an unauthorised person or the cashier alone being able to open the box.
■ VERB
take
▪ You probably took chances rather than precautions.
▪ Typical of his informant to take such precautions.
▪ Still, Dave puts his family at great risk, yet takes smart precautions to protect a casual acquaintance.
▪ He says his wife's experience has taught him that you must take precautions.
▪ It was lucky that we took the precaution of setting extra anchors.
▪ Nevertheless, it makes sense to take a few simple precautions.
▪ Being aware that overdrinking is especially likely in particular situations and taking extra precautions at these times. 4.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All safety precautions must be followed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many precautions have been devised to avoid contamination, but scrupulous housekeeping is essential in any laboratory routinely undertaking the reaction.
▪ Nevertheless, it makes sense to take a few simple precautions.
▪ She had not taken any precautions, nothing had been further from her mind.
▪ Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed.
▪ The district officer wanted to know if suitable precautions had been taken to avoid the elephants.
▪ The Reich took precautions at Garmisch.
▪ Yet all her precautions do not seem to have prevented the 26-year-old woman from abduction.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precaution

Precaution \Pre*cau"tion\, n. [F. pr['e]cation, L. praecautio, fr. praecavere, praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on one's guard. See Pre-, and Caution.]

  1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.

    They [ancient philosophers] treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution.
    --J. H. Newman.

  2. A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.

Precaution

Precaution \Pre*cau"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. pr['e]cautionner.]

  1. To warn or caution beforehand.
    --Locke.

  2. To take precaution against. [R.]
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
precaution

c.1600, from French précaution (16c.) and directly from Late Latin praecautionem (nominative praecautio) "a safeguarding," from past participle stem of Latin praecavere "to guard against beforehand," from prae "before" (see pre-) + cavere "to be one's own guard" (see caution (n.)). The verb meaning "to warn (someone) in advance" is from c.1700.

Wiktionary
precaution

n. 1 Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. 2 A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act. vb. 1 (context transitive English): To warn or caution beforehand. --http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Locke. 2 (context transitive rare English): To take precaution against. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dryden.

WordNet
precaution
  1. n. a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down" [syn: safeguard, guard]

  2. the trait of practicing caution in advance

  3. judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care" [syn: caution, care, forethought]

Wikipedia
Precaution (novel)

Precaution (1820) is the first novel written by American author James Fenimore Cooper. It was written in imitation of contemporary English domestic novels like those of Jane Austen and Amelia Opie, and it did not meet with contemporary success. Cooper went on to have great success with works such as The Pathfinder (1841) and The Deerslayer (1840). The American reading public responded most to The Last of the Mohicans (1826).

Usage examples of "precaution".

After his return to his ranch, a correspondence had been maintained between the two, Annixter taking the precaution to typewrite his letters, and never affixing his signature, in an excess of prudence.

But for that precaution I should not have been able to lay before the reader the autograph documents in my possession, and which I imagine form the most essential part of these volumes.

I took out my last barracan, as some precaution against the threatening clouds.

I took the precaution of making certain from time to time, as I trod the crooked streets that straggled down the cliff between cave-houses excavated from the rock and swallow-houses jutting out from it, that I could still see the familiar shape of the bartizan, with its barricaded gate and black gonfalon.

They watched with amusement the elaborate precautions which Jan Cheroot took to get the last drop into his brimming mug.

The final judgment of the experimenter does not appear to be entirely favourable to the test involving the eye, though he insists that with proper precautions it is safe.

He carried a bow, and tinder, and sharp steel, small precautions that counted in a Skyshiel gale, when cloud and relentless snowfall mantled the high peaks, and strength and experience lent no guarantee in the brute fight to maintain survival.

But then I took the precaution, just in case her excitement exceeded her secret willingness to play the rules of my little game for her own masochistic benefit, of tucking the tweezers and plume into the pocket of my robe, squatting down, and taking the felt belt of my robe out and binding it fast around her right ankle, with the other end drawn round and round a metal ring set into the floor.

Notwithstanding these precautions, his Prussian majesty, to guard as much as could be against every possible event, sent a great number of gunners and matrasses from Pomerania to Memel, with three regiments of his troops, to reinforce the garrison of that place.

The King of England sent a message to Parliament, in which he spoke of armaments preparing in the ports of France, and of the necessity of adopting precautions against meditated aggressions.

But as a precaution, de la Mery, having as usual hidden his mongoose, had introduced them to his collection on their first trip, making only the slightest allusion to the fate that would follow if they tampered with these despatches.

As an added precaution there were three monocycles purring next to the curb.

And we would like to say that we are quite satisfied that she took all proper precautions about keeping the morphia locked up, and that she is in no way to blame.

The mountebank, who had always exercised great caution in that field with her, on the grounds that maids with child were little use to him after four months or so and precautions however keenly made could not be trusted, appeared to be in two minds whether to change his tack this time alone.

But intuitively realizing what the most of humanity would think of their answer to the problem, they took every precaution to conceal their triumph, so that it was only bare months before the Great Catastrophe that the Congresswhich is what the gathering of ruling representatives was then calledand certain newsmongers discovered just how horrible was that method.