preventivist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From preventive + -ist.
Noun
[edit]preventivist (plural preventivists)
- (rare) A preventionist.
- 2009, I. William Zartman, “Risk and Preventive Negotiations”, in Rudolf Avenhaus, Gunnar Sjöstedt, editors, Negotiated Risks: International Talks on Hazardous Issues, Berlin: Springer, , →ISBN, page 112:
- Early awareness is the term that preventivists use to encompass perception, communication, and assessment of uncertainties—elements that constitute the key to appropriate preventive action.