preventive : Idioms & Phrases

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preventive attack

  • noun a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces
    preventive attack.
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preventive medicine

  • noun the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
    • the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine
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Preventive service

  • the duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. Eng
Webster 1913

preventive strike

  • noun a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces
    preventive attack.
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