prevention

prevention
    n 1: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving";
         "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of
         influenza" [syn: {prevention}, {bar}]
    

Prevention \Pre*ven"tion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vention.]
   1. The act of going, or state of being, before. [Obs.]
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            The greater the distance, the greater the
            prevention.                           --Bacon.
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   2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes;
      hence, precaution; forethought. [Obs.] --Hammond. Shak.
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   3. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action,
      access, or approach; thwarting. --South.
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            Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. --Shak.
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   4. Prejudice; prepossession. [A Gallicism] --Dryden.
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PREVENTION, civil and French law. The right of a judge to take cognizance of 
an action over which he has concurrent jurisdiction with another judge. 
     2. In Pennsylvania it has been ruled that a justice of the peace cannot 
take cognizance of a cause which has been previously decided by another 
justice. 2 Dall. 77; Id. 114. 
    

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "prevention":
      Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abortion,
      anticipation, arrest, arrestation, arresting, avoidance, avoiding,
      avoiding reaction, balk, balking, ban, banning, bar, barring,
      block, blocking, check, checking, circumvention, contraband,
      control, controlling, curb, curbing, debarment, debarring,
      defense mechanism, delay, delaying, denial, determent, deterrence,
      disallowance, discouragement, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness,
      embargo, enjoining, equivocation, escape, estoppel, evasion,
      evasive action, evasiveness, exclusion, foiling, forbearance,
      forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, foreclosure,
      forestalling, forestallment, frustrating, frustration,
      getting around, halt, halting, hampering, hindering, hindrance,
      impedance, impeding, index, index expurgatorius,
      index librorum prohibitorum, inhibiting, inhibition, injunction,
      intercepting, interception, interdict, interdicting, interdiction,
      interdictum, jink, law, mitigating, mitigation, neutrality, no-no,
      nonintervention, noninvolvement, obstructing, obstruction,
      obviation, preclusion, prohibiting, prohibition,
      prohibitory injunction, proscribing, proscription, refraining,
      refusal, rejection, repression, restraining, restraint,
      restrictive covenants, retardation, ruling out, shunning,
      shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, slowing, statute,
      stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo,
      the runaround, thwarting, zigzag, zoning, zoning laws