Usually means: Able to be stopped or avoided.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Preventable:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. preventable: Merriam-Webster
  2. preventable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preventable: Collins English Dictionary
  4. preventable: Vocabulary.com
  5. Preventable, preventable: Wordnik
  6. preventable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. preventable: Wiktionary
  8. Preventable, preventable: Dictionary.com
  9. preventable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Preventable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. preventable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. preventable: Rhymezone
  13. Preventable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. preventable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. preventable: FreeDictionary.org
  16. preventable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. preventable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preventable: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. preventable: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preventable)

▸ adjective:  Capable of being prevented.
▸ noun:  Something that can be prevented.

Similar:
avertable, avertible, avoidable, occurable, curable, remediable, occurrable, evitable, treatable, medicable, more...

Opposite:
unavoidable, inevitable, inescapable

Types:
accidents, illnesses, diseases, injuries, errors, mistakes, problems, risks, more...

Phrases:
preventable death, Preventable causes of death, Preventable fraction among the unexposed, more...

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Similar:
avertable, avertible, avoidable, occurable, curable, remediable, occurrable, evitable, treatable, medicable, more...

Opposite:
unavoidable, inevitable, inescapable

Types:
accidents, illnesses, diseases, injuries, errors, mistakes, problems, risks, more...

Phrases:
preventable death, Preventable causes of death, Preventable fraction among the unexposed, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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