Vorbeugung

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German

Etymology

From vorbeugen +‎ -ung.

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  • Hyphenation: Vor‧beu‧gung

Noun

Vorbeugung f (genitive Vorbeugung, plural Vorbeugungen)

  1. prevention
    Synonyms: Prävention, Verhütung
    • 2003 December 7, Annette Wegner, Neuer Zürcher Zeitung:
      Zur Vorbeugung von Krankheiten und Alterungsprozessen empfehle er, «grosse Quantitäten von Mikroben zu verzehren», schrieb der russische Nobelpreisträger Ilja Metschnikow zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts.
      For the prevention of diseases and ageing, the Russian Nobel laureate Élie Metchnikoff, writing at the end of the last century, recommended ‘consuming large quantities of microbes’.
  2. prophylaxis
    Synonyms: Prophylaxe, Vorsorge

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