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# prevention

«prevention» in Mova's school dictionary: **stopping something bad from happening before it happens** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (prevention — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Prevention means stopping something bad from happening before it happens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and health lessons: fire prevention (smoke alarms, not playing with matches), accident prevention, illness prevention (washing hands, vaccines). In science: pollution prevention. Saying: «Prevention is better than cure» — it is easier to stop a problem than to fix it later. Phrases: crime prevention, fire prevention, prevention of, injury prevention.

### examples

- Washing your hands is good for illness prevention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#x1)
- Fire prevention week teaches us about smoke alarms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#x2)
- Prevention is better than cure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#x3)
- The helmet is for injury prevention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#x4)
- The council spends money on flood prevention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#x5)
- Brushing your teeth is tooth decay prevention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «prevention», not «a prevention». Verb: prevent; adjective: preventive or preventative. «Prevention of» something: «the prevention of accidents».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prevention» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevention/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.