antiprevention

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English

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Etymology

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anti- +‎ prevention

Adjective

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antiprevention (comparative more antiprevention, superlative most antiprevention)

  1. Opposing prevention (of crime, the spread of disease, etc.).
    • 2007 July 18, Robin Toner, “Democrats Attack Bush on Women’s Health Issues”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.”

Antonyms

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