Usually means: Actions taken to avoid problems.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word preventative:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. preventative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preventative: Merriam-Webster
  3. preventative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preventative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preventative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preventative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preventative, preventative: Wordnik
  8. preventative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preventative: Wiktionary
  10. preventative: Dictionary.com
  11. preventative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Preventative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. preventative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. preventative: Rhymezone
  15. Preventative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. PREVENTATIVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. preventative: FreeDictionary.org
  18. preventative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. preventative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preventative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preventative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See preventatives as well.)

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adjective:  Alternative form of preventive [Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.]
noun:  Alternative form of preventive [(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.]

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