averting Meaning & Definition

  • En [ əˈvɜːt]
  • Us [ əˈvɝːt]

Meaning of averting In English

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  • Prevention is made up of actions aimed at averting the establishment or development of a health problem.

  • In its initial use of regulations the unionist government drew most heavily on measures aimed at averting immediate violence and civil unrest.

  • This public status (combined with their public powers) implies that they are authorized to take binding decisions and to levy taxes, thus averting freerider behaviour.

  • This decision is modeled using the averting behavior data.

  • One motivation for combating genetic disease is the hope of saving money by averting births of infants with costly disorders.

  • Following these averting actions, a cross-section study of households might show that higher-income households are not more willing to pay for pollution abatement.

  • Then as pollution grows, higher-income households take a variety of averting actions.

  • We may observe that averting a disaster always carries greater weight than promoting a good.

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