Synonyms for prevention
prɪˈvɛn ʃənpre·ven·tion

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1. prevention

   Synonyms:
   denial, hindrance, objection, opposition, prohibition, refusal, resistance

   Antonyms:
   allowance, authority, authorization, consent, leave, liberty, license, permission, permit

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1. prevention

   Synonyms:
   obstruction, stoppage, interruption, hinderance

   Antonyms:
   help, aid, succor, acceleration

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1. prevention, barnoun

   the act of preventing

   "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, bar, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom

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1. • Hindrance

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1. preventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   obstruction, stoppage, hinderance, interruption

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1. preventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   obstruction, thwarting, interruption, hindrance, preclusion, obviation, interception

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1. List of paraphrases for "prevention":

   preventing, preventive, prevent, preventative, prévention, prevención, avoidance, prevented, precautionary, preventions, prophylaxis

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1. Sarit Golub:

   What PrEP is able to do is separate the act of prevention of HIV from the act of sexual intimacy, and to me, I think that is one of the tremendous powers of PrEP for individuals and for us as a broader community.

2. Steven Nissen:

   In secondary prevention, aspirin is important. If you have a stent, if you've had a myocardial infarction or a stroke, for all of those people, aspirin works. It provides a modest but definite benefit.

3. Steven Nissen:

   The drug worked in primary and secondary prevention patients – that is, patients that had had event and patients who were very high risk for a first event. There were a lot of diabetics. These were very high risk people, so the drug met its expectations and probably did a lot better than a lot of people thought it would do.

4. Tim Kaine -LRB- D-VA -RRB-:

   It’s critical that universities get timely feedback so they can take proactive steps to improve campus sexual violence prevention policies, congress must do its part by approving additional funding to help the Office of Civil Rights manage its large caseload.

5. Karen Knudsen:

   New revelations for prevention, for early detection and for treatment have resulted in true, meaningful gains in many of the 200 diseases that we call cancer.