Definition of PREVENTIVE. Meaning of PREVENTIVE. Synonyms of PREVENTIVE

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Definition of PREVENTIVE

Preventive
Preventive Pre*vent"ive, n. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.

Meaning of PREVENTIVE from wikipedia

- Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases. Disease and disability are affected by environmental...
- Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is ****tively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts. Preventive...
- depend on maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) including scheduled or preventive paint maintenance programmes to maintain and restore coatings applied...
- A preventive war is an armed conflict "initiated in the belief that military conflict, while not imminent, is inevitable, and that to delay would involve...
- Preventive diplomacy is action to prevent disputes from arising between parties, to prevent existing disputes from escalating into conflicts and to limit...
- Preventive maintenance checks and services (PMCS) in the United States Army or preventive maintenance inspections (PMI) in the United States Air Force...
- A preventive action is a change implemented to address a weakness in a management system that is not yet responsible for causing nonconforming product...
- Preventive and social medicine is a branch of medicine dealing with providing health services in areas of prevention, promotion and treatment of rehabilitative...
- Preventive conservation may refer to: Collections maintenance Conservation and restoration of cultural property Preservation (library and archive) Risk...
- Palestinian Preventive Security (PPS; Arabic: الأمن الوقائي, romanized: Al-’amn al-wiqā’ī), also known as Preventive Security Force (PSF), Preventive Security...