how to pronounce prevent

/pɹɪˈvɛnt/

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prevent is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of prevent in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… time so as to prevent women from owning …”

meaning of prevent

Prevent means to stop something from happening.

prevent frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word prevent occurs in english on average 40.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics prevent can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that prevent can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;