1. preventable - Noun
2. preventable - Adjective
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day. Benjamin Mkapa
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. Enoch Powell
Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People living with AIDS should not be dying from preventable and treatable diseases. George W. Bush
The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world. Tawakkol Karman
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. Christy Turlington