preventionistn.
/prᵻˈvɛnʃn̩ɪst/, /prᵻˈvɛnʃ(ə)nɪst/, U.S. /priˈvɛn(t)ʃənəst/, /prəˈvɛn(t)ʃənəst/ A person who favours or advocates a policy of prevention. Also with modifying word designating the thing (to be) prevented.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > that which > one who > as a policy
preventionist1916
1916 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 18 May Another question that is agitating the fire preventionists of the country at this time, is the question of personal responsibility and liability for negligent fires.
1918 A. Gray tr. R. Grelling Crime II. ii. 109 All these questions..must simultaneously be answered in the affirmative, if the preventionists wish to justify their point of view.
1940 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 19 Oct. 2/4 (cartoon caption) American Preventionists. It is better to prevent war than to provoke it.
1978 D. Grylls Guardians & Angels ii. 66 The child-cruelty furore..promoted sympathy for children's sufferings, and preventionists tended to deprecate not only cruelty but strictness.
2003 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 22 Apr. 2 Social worker and certified Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Preventionist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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