Usually means: Action taken to avoid problems.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word preventive:

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preventive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. preventive: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. preventive: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See preventively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
adjective:  Carried out to deter military aggression.
adjective:  Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
noun:  (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
noun:  (dated) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
noun:  A contraceptive, especially a condom.

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