precaution
To prevent these malicious agents from infecting computers, Internet security specialists recommend that home users take several precautionary steps.
Stewards will hold a precautionary inspection this morning to determine whether today's horse race can go ahead.
Federal officials stressed that the recall was precautionary and that they had not found any cases of contaminated vaccine.

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precautionary | Business English

precautionary
adjective
uk /prɪˈkɔːʃənəri/ us /prɪˈkɔːʃəneri/
done or used to try and protect a person or thing from something dangerous or harmful:
As a precautionary measure, she moved her money to another account.

Examples of precautionary

precautionary
It might be objected that a phrase requiring, for example, "reasonable scientific foundation" of a suspicion to trigger precautionary measures is not very precise.
Moreover, unexpected events might affect current and retirement income, evidence on the precautionary motive of saving is far-reaching.
Although both fishing and precautionary savings (food stock or livestock) are observed in all villages, their relative importance varies across the villages.
Thus, weaker precautionary motives raise wealth inequality between income groups as well as age groups. 31.
But this is not clear since younger individuals who receive bequests would have a lower demand for precautionary saving.
That might be true, but interpretations of the precautionary principle are in fact emerging, albeit slowly.
For various reasons, the precautionary demand for farmland, which exists in many impoverished settings, tends to diminish as living standards rise.
We do not sterilize surgical instruments as a precautionary measure, as we know that an infection is rather probable if we use unclean instruments.
A precautionary approach towards risk regulation was also reflected in and reinforced by a number of judicial decisions.
First, there is a precautionary demand for land that can be used for subsistence agriculture and this demand declines as income rises.
The calculation of lifecycle wealth does not distinguish the precautionary motive from the pure life-cycle motive.
It also extended the precautionary principle to consumer protection.
Thus, their objections might in the end be quite useful for proponents of the precautionary principle.
However, the elements (1)-(4) and the overall structure is common to most existing prescriptive versions of the precautionary principle.
The problem with their argument is that they took the precautionary principle out of context.
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