preventive

  1. Adjective.  Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
  2. Adjective.  Carried out to deter military aggression.
  3. Adjective.  Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
  4. Noun.  (nonstandard) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
  5. Noun.  (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
  6. Noun.  A contraceptive, especially a condom.

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