Usually means: Acting in advance to avoid.
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  1. preventatively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. preventatively: Wordnik
  3. preventatively: Wiktionary
  4. preventatively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. preventatively: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preventatively)

▸ adverb:  In a manner that is preventative.

Similar:
preventively, preventingly, precautionarily, protectively, premeditatively, predilutionally, prepatently, protensively, pretensively, premeditatingly, more...

Opposite:
reactively, responsively, after-the-fact

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Similar:
preventively, preventingly, precautionarily, protectively, premeditatively, predilutionally, prepatently, protensively, pretensively, premeditatingly, more...

Opposite:
reactively, responsively, after-the-fact



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