Usually means: Action to stop something occurring.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word prevention:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prevention: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prevention: Merriam-Webster
  3. prevention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prevention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prevention: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prevention: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prevention, prevention: Wordnik
  8. prevention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prevention: Wiktionary
  10. prevention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prevention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prevention: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prevention, prevention: Dictionary.com
  14. prevention: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prevention (album), Prevention (magazine), Prevention (medical), Prevention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prevention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prevention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prevention: Rhymezone
  19. Prevention: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prevention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prevention: FreeDictionary.org
  22. prevention: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prevention: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Prevention: Disaster Management
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. prevention: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevention: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Prevention: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Prevention: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. prevention: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Prevention (medical), prevention: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevention: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevention: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. preventions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
noun:  (medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
noun:  (obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
noun:  (obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks
noun:  precaution; forethought.

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