0 intended to prevent something unpleasant or dangerous from happening:
1 done or used to try and protect a person or thing from something dangerous or harmful:
To prevent these malicious agents from infecting computers, Internet security specialists recommend that home users take several precautionary steps.
Stewards will hold a precautionary inspection this morning to determine whether today's horse race can go ahead.
Federal officials stressed that the recall was precautionary and that they had not found any cases of contaminated vaccine.
It might be objected that a phrase requiring, for example, "reasonable scientific foundation" of a suspicion to trigger precautionary measures is not very precise.
Moreover, unexpected events might affect current and retirement income, evidence on the precautionary motive of saving is far-reaching.
Although both fishing and precautionary savings (food stock or livestock) are observed in all villages, their relative importance varies across the villages.
Thus, weaker precautionary motives raise wealth inequality between income groups as well as age groups. 31.
But this is not clear since younger individuals who receive bequests would have a lower demand for precautionary saving.
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