Usually means: Preventing issues before they develop.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. interceptive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. interceptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. interceptive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. interceptive: Wordnik
  5. interceptive: Wiktionary
  6. Interceptive, interceptive: Dictionary.com
  7. interceptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Interceptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. interceptive: Free Dictionary
  10. Interceptive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  11. Interceptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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  1. interceptive: Legal dictionary

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  1. interceptive: Encyclopedia

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  1. interceptive: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (interceptive)

adjective:  Pertaining to the coordination, joining, and interaction or interference of a moving object with another (moving or stationary) object.
adjective:  Pertaining to the interruption of a trajectory or course of development to stop it or divert it to a new trajectory or course of development, as opposed to correction after the fact.
adjective:  (more specifically) Pertaining to the prevention of pregnancy by interfering with the implantation of the embryo in the uterus.
adjective:  Pertaining to the approach and destruction of an attacking enemy force.
noun:  A drug or device that prevents pregnancy by interfering with the implantation of an embryo in the uterus.

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