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antiprevention

antiprevention adjective: opposing prevention (of crime, the spread of disease, etc.).

Adjective

antiprevention (comparative more antiprevention, superlative most antiprevention)

  1. Opposing prevention (of crime, the spread of disease, etc.).
    • She added, to cheers, “I want you to know that when I’m president, I will devote my very first days in office to reversing these ideological, antiscience, antiprevention policies that this administration has put into place.”2007 July 18, Robin Toner, “Democrats Attack Bush on Women’s Health Issues”, in New York Times

Antonyms of antiprevention

  • proprevention

Forms of antiprevention

comparativemore antiprevention
superlativemost antiprevention

Origin of antiprevention

From anti- + prevention.

Questions about antiprevention

What does antiprevention mean?
Antiprevention means opposing prevention (of crime, the spread of disease, etc.).
What part of speech is antiprevention?
Antiprevention is an adjective.

Words near antiprevention in the dictionary

  1. antiprejudicial
  2. antipreon
  3. antipreons
  4. antipreparedness
  5. antipress
  6. antiprevention
  7. antipriest
  8. antipriestcraft
  9. antipriestly
  10. antipriests
  11. antiprime

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