| 单词 | precautionary |
| 释义 | precautionary (once / 7675 pages) adj Anything that might prevent something unpleasant or dangerous from happening is precautionary. If you're babysitting your neighbor's three year old triplets, you might want to hide every fragile thing in your house as a precautionary measure first. If you do it beforehand to protect someone or something, it's precautionary. You may be sure you don't have a concussion after wiping out on your bike, but getting checked out at the emergency room would be a smart, precautionary move anyway. Putting on your helmet before you raced your bike down that hill was also precautionary. The Late Latin source of precautionary is praecautionem, "a safeguarding," from the Latin praecavere, "to guard against beforehand." WORD FAMILYprecaution: precautional, precautionary, precautions+/caution: cautionary, cautioned, cautioning, cautions, cautious, incaution, precaution/cautious: cautiously, cautiousness, incautious, overcautious/incautious: incautiously, incautiousness/overcautious: overcautiously USAGE EXAMPLESA precautionary recapitalization is a type of state intervention in a struggling bank that is still solvent. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Moray Council said the deep clean was a precautionary measure, and there was no reason to believe the school was the cause of the outbreak. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) Holthaus, who encouraged scientists to flag key databases, said the effort to safeguard them is mostly precautionary. Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) adj taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure gave precautionary advice I would take precautionary steps to keep him away Syn precautional preventative, preventive tending to prevent or hinder |
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