OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 44446

precautionary

Meanings (ES + gloss)
precautorio • preventivo
Of, pertaining to, or serving as a precaution.
Fearing attack on the northern ports by the English, he even took precautionary measures by strengthening the defense of Shan-hai-kuan 山海關 and Ch‘in-huang-tao 秦皇島.
The port cities were quarantined as a precautionary measure, though no cases of the disease had been found.
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