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. 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.

2. Kelly Rulison:

   Teens whose friends participated in a family-based substance use prevention program benefited from the program even though their own families did not participate.

3. Zin Eddine Dadach:

   A long term vision is about prevention and planning while a short term vision is for cure and firefighting

4. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher:

   Under no circumstance should anybody from the tobacco, nicotine, vaping industries be involved in or implementing tobacco prevention programs.

5. Margo Wootan:

   This administration is very committed to nutrition and obesity prevention. That commitment runs very deep.