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"Carried out to deter military aggression."
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"http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html#preventive"
],
"word": "Although it is not mandatory"
},
{
"urls": [
"http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html#preventive"
],
"word": "many speakers prefer to use preventive in adjective senses and preventative in noun senses"
},
{
"word": "preventative"
}
],
"word": "preventive"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "preventive",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "preventivo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of preventivo"
],
"links": [
[
"preventivo",
"preventivo#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "preventive"
}
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