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单词 avoidable
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Definition of avoidable in English:

avoidable

adjective əˈvɔɪdəbləˈvɔɪdəb(ə)l
  • Able to be avoided or prevented.

    the accident was entirely avoidable
    avoidable costs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Post Office will be made responsible for maintaining the rural network and preventing any avoidable closures.
    • If most Israelis consider a confrontation unnecessary or avoidable, they will simply refuse to fight.
    • This is driving a panic not to give anyone any reason to be able to point a finger of blame that the government didn't prevent an avoidable atrocity.
    • Firefighters are now warning people to keep combustible materials away from buildings to prevent avoidable damage.
    • I hope not, because it is needless, avoidable and a national disgrace that this can happen every year.
    Synonyms
    preventable, stoppable, avertable
    escapable
    needless, unnecessary

Derivatives

  • avoidably

  • adverb
    • Had there all along been a free press, we might have learned that the private sector has avoidably consigned to catastrophic injury or death more workers than the public sector around the world has in its wars.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As we are dealing with an aging population, with a large quantity of disease attributable to an unnecessarily and avoidably poor lifestyle, the need for change is obvious.
      • Other aggravating features include driving while the driver's attention was avoidably distracted - such as by reading or by the use of a mobile phone.
      • Every child's life that is lost, mostly avoidably, is a tragedy.
      • Britain, sadly and avoidably, is heading in the wrong direction.
 
 

Definition of avoidable in US English:

avoidable

adjectiveəˈvoidəb(ə)ləˈvɔɪdəb(ə)l
  • Able to be avoided or prevented.

    the accident was entirely avoidable
    avoidable costs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Post Office will be made responsible for maintaining the rural network and preventing any avoidable closures.
    • This is driving a panic not to give anyone any reason to be able to point a finger of blame that the government didn't prevent an avoidable atrocity.
    • If most Israelis consider a confrontation unnecessary or avoidable, they will simply refuse to fight.
    • Firefighters are now warning people to keep combustible materials away from buildings to prevent avoidable damage.
    • I hope not, because it is needless, avoidable and a national disgrace that this can happen every year.
    Synonyms
    preventable, stoppable, avertable
 
 
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