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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preventative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a preventative/precautionary measure (=something done to prevent something bad)
▪ Vaccination against disease is a sensible preventative measure.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
maintenance
▪ These include quality small batch production, set-up reductions, preventative maintenance, production control, supplier partnerships and employee development.
▪ It is used at full strength for immediate odour elimination, or in a 6 to 1 dilution for ongoing preventative maintenance.
▪ Setting up and running preventative maintenance programmes and anti-virus software updates. 2.
measure
▪ We are monitoring the entire town to find out how preventative measures can influence the way people live.
▪ He also puts a couple of drops of lavender essence on the toe-end of his socks as a preventative measure.
▪ You could discuss these preventative measures with your pharmacist.
▪ In future you take preventative measures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Iridology, however, stresses preventative medicine, catching illness in the early stages.
▪ It is primarily preventative and treats the whole person rather than just the ailment.
▪ MSAs would allow people to pay for routine and preventative health care out of pre-tax savings.
▪ She wrote a one-page paper on preventative medicine, another on how stuffed animals were made.
▪ The Ministry of Agriculture statement said that the warning had been intended as preventative advice.
▪ These include quality small batch production, set-up reductions, preventative maintenance, production control, supplier partnerships and employee development.
▪ This strategy would facilitate crucial improvements to preventative services such as family care centres and counselling facilities.
▪ You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure: after all, prevention is better than cure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preventative

Preventative \Pre*vent"a*tive\, n. That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preventative

1650s, from prevent + -ative. OED points out that preventive is better-formed. As a noun, from 1774.

Wiktionary
preventative

a. (alternative form of preventive English) n. (alternative form of preventive English)

WordNet
preventative

  1. adj. tending to prevent or hinder [syn: preventive] [ant: permissive]

  2. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug" [syn: preventive, prophylactic]

  3. n. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" [syn: preventive, prophylactic]

  4. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hitch, preventive, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference]

  5. an agent or device intended to prevent conception [syn: contraceptive, preventive, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device]

Usage examples of "preventative".

Coral was a preventative against witchcraft, hence the fashion of ladies and children wearing necklaces and bracelets of this material.

Pieces of consecrated bread carried home and preserved is a preventative against the bite of a mad dog.

Both governments cabled to the court their immediate acknowledgment of the order, and there is, therefore, a strong probability that the clash is at an end, a few hours after it began as a preventative assault against certain illegal space installations.

He'd swallowed a couple of Dapsone pills as preventative and smeared insect repellent from his survival kit on his face and hands.

There was a preventative and a cure that had been known for hundreds of years though under various names, Peruvian bark, or Chinchona bark, more recently called essence of quinine when manufactured in powder form by the Quaker brothers Luke and John Howard.

Her skirt pockets jingled with lucky charms, and a freshly-forged horseshoe, always a potent preventative in time of trouble, weighed down her handbag.

The mustard gas is corrosive and I'd be surprised if any is left that hasn't eaten its way through the containers, without preventative maintenance.

Besides which, the longer you give us to wash the preventatives and diagnostics out of her system, the more coherent she'll be.

I hadn't seen any telltale sticky fingers or faces yet, but it might be as well to take some preventative steps.

Not only were the test cases immune to these unnatural diseases but showed no dangerous reaction to the preventative injection.

If a very small piece is chopped fine and put into chicken's food daily, it is a sure preventative of the gapes.