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Preventive
prɪˈvɛntɪv
Preventive definitions
adjective
preventive
- designed to keep something undesirable such as illness or harm from occurring
"preventive medicine"
inhibitory preventative deterrent pre-emptive obstructive prophylactic disease-preventing precautionary preventative protective
noun
preventive
preventives
- a medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health
"quinine was used as a malaria preventive"