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Common collocations with preventable in American Collocation

preventable adjective

US /prɪˈventəb(ə)l/

completely

completely
entirely
totally
wholly

Most health conditions being treated by medicine today are entirely preventable.

easily

easily

The message is that most fires in the home are easily preventable.

mostly

largely
mostly

Problems with the teeth and gums in cats are largely preventable if you feed the correct diet from a young age.

possibly

potentially

Even more tragically, 90 per cent of these cancers are potentially preventable.

disease

blindness
cancer
condition
disease
illness
infection
problem

Aid agencies say 6,500 Africans die of preventable diseases daily.

accident or injury

accident
disaster
fire
incident
injury

Every year, thousands of children are injured in preventable accidents involving toys.

death

death
mortality

Obesity is the second biggest cause of preventable death in the United States.

mistake

error

We have seen an increasing number of preventable errors within the NHS this year.

cause

cause
factor

Most newborn deaths are the result of preventable causes such as infections, complications at birth and low birth weight.

avoidable
curable
predictable
treatable

Millions of people in remote rural populations die every year from preventable or treatable diseases.