Usually means: Safety measures taken before risks.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word precaution:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. precaution: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. precaution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precaution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precaution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precaution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Precaution, precaution: Wordnik
  7. precaution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. precaution: Wiktionary
  9. precaution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. precaution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. precaution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Precaution, precaution: Dictionary.com
  13. precaution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. precaution: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Precaution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. precaution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. precaution: Rhymezone
  18. precaution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. precaution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. precaution: Free Dictionary
  21. precaution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. precaution: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precaution: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)

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

(Note: See precautionary as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good
▸ noun:  A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To warn or caution beforehand.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To take precaution against.

Similar:
forethought, caution, care, safeguard, wariness, prevention, premonishment, precare, forecare, forepractice, more...

Opposite:
recklessness, carelessness, negligence

Types:
measure, safeguard, countermeasure, more...

Phrases:
safety precaution, as a precaution, take the precaution, useless precaution, opposite of precaution, more...

Adjectives:
wise, necessary, possible, further, additional, extra, only, added, simple, reasonable, proper

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Similar:
forethought, caution, care, safeguard, wariness, prevention, premonishment, precare, forecare, forepractice, more...

Opposite:
recklessness, carelessness, negligence

Types:
measure, safeguard, countermeasure, more...

Phrases:
safety precaution, as a precaution, take the precaution, useless precaution, opposite of precaution, more...

Adjectives:
wise, necessary, possible, further, additional, extra, only, added, simple, reasonable, proper

Colors:
    yellow,     orange,     red,     amber,     lime, more...



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