Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with preventable in American Collocation
completely
Most health conditions being treated by medicine today are entirely preventable.
easily
The message is that most fires in the home are easily preventable.
mostly
Problems with the teeth and gums in cats are largely preventable if you feed the correct diet from a young age.
possibly
Even more tragically, 90 per cent of these cancers are potentially preventable.
disease
Aid agencies say 6,500 Africans die of preventable diseases daily.
accident or injury
Every year, thousands of children are injured in preventable accidents involving toys.
death
Obesity is the second biggest cause of preventable death in the United States.
mistake
We have seen an increasing number of preventable errors within the NHS this year.
cause
Most newborn deaths are the result of preventable causes such as infections, complications at birth and low birth weight.
Millions of people in remote rural populations die every year from preventable or treatable diseases.