Definitionadj. taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure
Last update: July 10, 2015
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Alex had taught Jonathan to shoot the first year after they had adopted him, but today he still got the same precautionary lecture that her father had given her. [Please select]
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But as King Pootoo insisted in vague earnestness that the informer was trustworthy, precautionary measures were not relaxed at any time. [Please select]
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Over his shoulder he shot a final look at once precautionary and triumphant. [Please select]
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As a precautionary measure, those for foreign countries were sent out first, then those for the provinces, and lastly those for Paris. [Please select]
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It was a ghastly and melancholy thing to make, as he must sometimes, a sort of precautionary visit to the state apartments. [Please select]
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David lifted his saucer, gave the contents a precautionary blow, and emptied it with sundry windy suspirations. [Please select]
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They should be kept clean and disinfected, as a precautionary measure, by the proceedings above described. [Please select]
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Nevertheless, some precautionary instinct warned Lily to withdraw beyond ear-shot of the hovering parlour-maid. [Please select]
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At the same time a hint is given him that his incarceration is only precautionary, with a promise it will not be for long. [Please select]
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About midday the sun grew intensely hot, and the stench drawn up by it from the marshes which the river drains was something too awful, and caused us instantly to swallow precautionary doses of quinine. [Please select]
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