This museum is equipped with a fire prevention system.
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Prevention
//pɹɪˈvɛnʃən//
Synonyms for "prevention" (131 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (65)
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More general
3 entriesderived
15 entriesan ounce of prevention is better than a pound of curean ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of curean ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cureangiopreventionantipreventionchemopreventionimmunopreventionloss preventionnonpreventionphotopreventionprevenceptionprevention is better than curepreventionalpreventionismpreventionist
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1 entrieshas context
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10 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَنْع noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Armenian
1 entries- կանխարգելում noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Bulgarian
4 entries- очакване noun (Anticipation)
- попречване noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- предотвратяване noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- профилактика noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Catalan
1 entries- prevenció noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 預防 /预防 noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Dutch
1 entries- preventie noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Estonian
1 entries- profülaktika noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Finnish
4 entries- ehkäiseminen noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- ehkäisy noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- ennaltaehkäiseminen noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- ennaltaehkäisy noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
French
2 entries- prévention noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- prévention noun (Measure to limit health risks)
German
1 entries- Prävention noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Greek
2 entries- αποτροπή noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- πρόληψη noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Hindi
2 entries- निवारण noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- रोकना noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Hungarian
1 entries- megelőzés noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Italian
1 entries- prevenzione noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Japanese
1 entries- 予防 noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Kazakh
1 entries- алдын алу noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Korean
1 entries- 예방 noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Väabieejunk noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- Väabieejunk noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Polish
2 entries- prewencja noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- zapobieganie noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Portuguese
2 entries- prevenção noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- prevenção noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Romanian
4 entries- anticipare noun (Anticipation)
- prevenire noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- prevenire noun (The act of going, or state of being, before)
- preîntâmpinare noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Russian
2 entries- предотвраще́ние noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- профила́ктика noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- anticipacija noun (Anticipation)
- predohrana noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- predupređivanje noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- prevencija noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Spanish
2 entries- prevención noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- prevención noun (Measure to limit health risks)
Telugu
1 entries- నివారణము noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Ukrainian
2 entries- запобігання noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
- попередження noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Walloon
1 entries- espaitchance noun (The act of preventing or hindering)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
This is Fire Prevention Week.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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The prevention of forest fires is everyone's responsibility.
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