precautionary

precaution | American Dictionary

precaution
noun[ C ]
us/prɪˈkɔ·ʃən/
an action taken to prevent something unpleasant or dangerous from happening:
Homeowners should take the basic precaution of locking their doors and windows.

precautionary

adjective[ not gradable ]us/prɪˈkɔ·ʃəˌner·i/
The company has withdrawn the drug as a precautionary measure while further testing is done.

precaution | Business English

precaution
noun[ C, especially plural ]
uk /prɪˈkɔːʃən/us
something that is done to try and protect a person or thing from something dangerous or harmful:
The bank decided to reduce interest rates as a precaution against inflation.
We're taking every precaution necessary to ensure the safety of our employees.
necessary/safety/security precautions

Examples of precaution

precaution
By comparison, the earlier building orders, regulations and codes did not go beyond some basic controls and general precautions against the danger of fire.
Even despite these precautions, age calculation and inter pretation is not straightforward.
Unless precautions are taken, humans could act as vectors for a range of dangerous pathogens and could disperse them widely.
Reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure that the solutions are accurate.
He was advised to take precautions to prevent uninvited visitors or tourists visiting the graves.
Even with these precautions, some level of risk of illness associated with the consumption of cantaloupes remains.
Depending on security precautions, those risks might be greater than the risks of disclosure or discovery in other media.
It had camped within range of the enemy, neglecting the simplest of precautions.
If such precautions are taken, reliable information can be extracted.
As the principle of precaution gained popularity in environmental ethics and policy, it also found its way to discussions concerning medicine and healthcare.
Our work has compared case and control kitchens in terms of foods handled, food hygiene precautions and microbiology.
Many of the rules and precautions that relate to flat roof construction (such as applying asphalt in more than one coat) are compensating measures.
Compost now sold from the farm carries a quite clear health warning and the basic hygiene precautions which should be observed during its handling.
All possible precautions to prevent the isolation medium from drying should be taken.
This did not apply to broiler flocks, although precautions are taken for infected flocks such as processing them at the end of the day.
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Collocations withprecaution

precaution

These are words often used in combination with precaution.

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additional precaution
Waste paper bins in the smokers' bedrooms were not lined, as an additional precaution.
adequate precaution
This seems to be a totally adequate precaution to deal with that very common form of piracy.
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