noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crime prevention
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The police can give you advice on crime prevention.
prevention is better than cure British English , an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure American English (= used to say that it is better to prevent illness than to cure it )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
effective
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They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme.
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Vitamin supplements, which cost just a few cents a dose, are a highly effective means of prevention .
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The only effective poaching prevention strategy was systematically identifying and nurturing one's most vulnerable executives.
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Although our understanding is far from complete, there are many valuable pointers to the elements likely to be necessary in effective prevention .
new
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Labour say they would increase policing levels still further, and the Liberal Democrats are calling for new crime prevention programmes.
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Such researchers often come up with very different conclusions from those of the new prevention thinkers.
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However, a new generation of prevention activists has moved in the opposite direction.
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But many new prevention leaders carry their critique much further.
primary
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We agree that primary prevention is the ideal, though its effects are limited in practice.
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This type of primary prevention is clearly welcomed by all involved with mentally handicapped people and the public at large.
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We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide.
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Indeed, the exercise of such anticipatory coping was one of Caplan's central notions for primary prevention .
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Targets for intervention. Primary prevention is thus directed towards the improvement of social conditions, in order to avert client status.
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We hope that primary prevention of attempted suicide will not continue to be solely a focus for conjecture.
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Again the emphasis is on primary prevention of the misuse of drugs and on preventing young people from being drawn in.
secondary
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When I was first taught cardiology there was little evidence for the efficacy of secondary prevention after myocardial infarction.
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This type of secondary prevention does however raise serious and controversial issues about social and medical ethics.
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The second form, secondary prevention , concerns the child when it is in the womb.
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Lasting success of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for biliary stones will depend on advances in secondary prevention .
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They refer to secondary prevention as early detection and medical treatment or selective abortion.
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In addition, secondary prevention could also be applied to the alleviation of social and psychological difficulties which might lead to attempts.
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Naturally, one would assume that these two aspects of secondary prevention go hand in hand.
tertiary
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There are three main types of prevention , known as primary, secondary and tertiary .
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So called tertiary prevention - paediatric surgery - can provide an almost 100% effective solution in at least another 25% of cases.
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Finally, tertiary prevention aims to reduce the duration and severity of the disease which is established.
■ NOUN
accident
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After all our lectures, they still don't think accident prevention applies to them.
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A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
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Individual effort is also vital. Accident prevention can not be viewed only in terms of the elimination of hazards.
aids
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Our first and subsequent courses have been a success and are part of a long-term commitment to AIDS prevention .
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The connections between environmentalism and AIDS prevention are more than merely rhetorical.
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Gay groups and AIDS prevention groups are beginning to experiment with different kinds of messages.
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Yet it is rarely posed as a major issue of AIDS prevention .
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Educators feared these young men were missing the AIDS prevention message.
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If the world of AIDS prevention worked that way, the process might look like this.
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But there are virtually no powerful forces within the gay AIDS prevention movement arguing for prevention first.
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The enterprise of AIDS prevention in the gay world has strenuously avoided any detailed examination of these mechanisms.
campaign
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It will also be used to promote the force's vehicle crime prevention campaign in April and May.
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Card Watch, the banking industry's plastic card fraud prevention campaign , issues top tips for travelling abroad.
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The government today launched a drug prevention campaign .
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As was the case with the problems of contraception and abortion, prevention campaigns tend to be short-lived.
cancer
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They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme.
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The National Cancer Institute has recently published new easy-to-understand, large-print publications on cancer prevention and treatment.
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Several trials that looked at cancer prevention were not considered within the scope of this analysis.
crime
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Talk about crime and crime prevention .
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Last month, the governor's office announced the county would get $ 10.3 million from a statewide crime prevention act.
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The Mazda 323 1.6i fastback is to be used mainly by crime prevention officers for visiting schools and exhibitions.
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It will also be used to promote the force's vehicle crime prevention campaign in April and May.
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Crime and criminal justice Crime prevention has received increasing recent attention from researchers and policy makers.
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The only publicly funded workers professionally concerned with crime prevention are police crime prevention officers.
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I can confirm, however, that on 11 February I shall announce a major campaign - car crime prevention year.
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They offer confidential counselling, basic crime prevention advice and help with practical details like insurance claims.
drug
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I visited the drug prevention team in Newham only last week.
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D, a leading drug prevention expert who worked on the report.
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The government today launched a drug prevention campaign.
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The work of the drug prevention teams deserves the support of the whole House.
fire
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In my view, the provision of adequate fire prevention and fire fighting measures should be Venice's top priority.
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Also patron of architects, builders, dying, fire prevention , founders, miners, and stonemasons.
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The research does suggest that in Dermakot at least they can incorporate our findings into their fire prevention methods and techniques.
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He felt unhappy and downgraded in his current non-operational job as a fire prevention officer in the service.
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Also patron of fire prevention , nursing homes, and spinsters.
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The building was purpose designed for making plastic drums and as consequence has fire prevention facilities to a particularly high standard.
flood
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But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.
officer
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The Mazda 323 1.6i fastback is to be used mainly by crime prevention officers for visiting schools and exhibitions.
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The only publicly funded workers professionally concerned with crime prevention are police crime prevention officers .
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There is, however, no systematic knowledge of what crime prevention officers do.
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He felt unhappy and downgraded in his current non-operational job as a fire prevention officer in the service.
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But crime prevention officers say the John Radcliffe's a difficult place to protect.
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It also has the highest number of community relations and crime prevention officers - 192.
policy
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The Labour party has a crime prevention policy and a youth crime prevention policy which will begin to deal with that problem.
pollution
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In this day and age almost all of the most positive and far-reaching developments in pollution prevention originate in industry.
program
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It is doubtful that any one of the described prevention programs - in isolation - will effectively prevent abuse.
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The tobacco tax is earmarked by an initiative for health and prevention programs .
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But it may take many years before we learn how much of an impact prevention programs have been able to make.
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That is why he is working to design a series of prevention programs .
programmes
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The numbers of deaf children are decreasing, and some causes such as rubella can be completely eradicated as medical prevention programmes improve.
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Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes .
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It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes .
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Labour say they would increase policing levels still further, and the Liberal Democrats are calling for new crime prevention programmes .
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The working party, chaired by James Morgan, studied crime prevention programmes .
strategy
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The only effective poaching prevention strategy was systematically identifying and nurturing one's most vulnerable executives.
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So it appeared obvious that in the absence of a known cause, any rational prevention strategy must involve partner reduction.
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Whether human, environmental or financial risks are involved, prevention strategies are being shown to be good business.
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Moreover, if merely making post-exposure prevention available can threaten conventional prevention strategies , advertising only risks further undermining them.
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Together, they are the two key elements of a comprehensive prevention strategy .
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After prevention strategies are formulated and implemented, they must be evaluated for effectiveness.
trial
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That the ethics of prevention trials is often a resource driven argument is tacitly assumed but rarely explicitly stated.
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They will use the results to better tailor prevention trials to specific cultures within ethnic groups.
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Underlying principles Four principles therefore underlie randomised prevention trials .
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Full-scale prevention trials will then start.
worker
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Many prevention workers came to believe that there was virtually no chance that prevention could contain the epidemic.
■ VERB
develop
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However, no services have been developed explicitly for the prevention of suicide attempts.
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Over time, you should be able to recognize your own asthma triggers and develop a prevention or treatment plan for them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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AIDS prevention efforts
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Develop and implement guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in immunosuppressed persons.
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In my view, the provision of adequate fire prevention and fire fighting measures should be Venice's top priority.
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So it appeared obvious that in the absence of a known cause, any rational prevention strategy must involve partner reduction.
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The Labour party is fully committed to health promotion and prevention care.
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The Secretary of State's crime prevention committee is considering how information should be collected and will continue to do so.