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Narrator: Today's word is "Prevention" — noun, pronounced /prɪˈvenʃn/, with the stress on "ven".
Narrator: Prevention is the act of stopping something bad from happening.
Narrator: In plain English, it is stopping trouble before it starts.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin praevenire, to come before.
Narrator: A common collocation is "crime prevention", which describes efforts to stop crime.
Narrator: It differs from "cure", because a cure fixes a problem, while prevention avoids it.
Narrator: The proverb "prevention is better than cure" is its most famous use.
Narrator: Healthcare, policing, safety and engineering all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: prevention stops trouble at the start.
Speaker A: Why do they say prevention is better than cure?
Speaker B: Because it saves pain! PREVENTION comes from the Latin for coming before.
Speaker A: So avoid the problem entirely?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Fire prevention saves lives", safety. "Vaccines aid disease prevention", health. "The charity works on suicide prevention", support.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say prevention of something, and the adjective is preventive or preventative.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Precaution is its cousin, avoidance is its twin, and deterrence is the policing alternative, but prevention keeps its protective charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "prevention" in AI prompts — useful for health apps and fraud systems.
Speaker A: How would health apps use it?
Speaker B: Encourage habits.
Prompt: Create a weekly heart disease prevention plan with simple exercise and diet goals.
Speaker A: And fraud systems?
Speaker B: Catch early.
Prompt: Design fraud prevention rules that block card payments from new devices over five hundred pounds.
Speaker A: Could it help schools?
Speaker B: Yes, safety.
Prompt: Write a short bullying prevention guide for primary school staff.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Software.
Prompt: List data loss prevention steps for a small team using cloud storage.
Prevention — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary