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• an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — This expression means that is is better to try to avoid problems in the first place, rather than trying to fix them once they arise …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — prevent a problem so you don t have to solve it, a stitch in time...    Forest fires deserve an ounce of prevention: public education in campfire safety …   English idioms

• an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — proverb it s easier to stop something from happening in the first place than to repair the damage after it has happened …   Useful english dictionary

• an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept — A number of proverbs similar in form are illustrated below. An ounce used figuratively for ‘a small quantity’ is found in 1567 W. CECIL Letter in C. Read Mr. Secretary Cecil (1955) xxi. Marry [to be sure], an ounce of advice is more worth to be… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Pound Hill — infobox UK place country = England latitude= 51.1220longitude= 0.1486official name= Pound Hill population = 14,700 (2001 data) shire district= Crawley shire county = West Sussex region= South East Englandconstituency westminster= Crawley post… …   Wikipedia

• Ounce — A measure of weight equal to 1/16th of a pound or, metrically, 28.35 grams. The abbreviation for ounce is oz. (An ounce of prevention is reputedly worth a pound of cure.) * * * A weight containing 480 g, or 112 pound troy and apothecaries weight …   Medical dictionary

• Whooping cough — Also known as pertussis, this is a feared infectious disease that can strike the respiratory system and affect other organs of the body. It has three stages—an initial stage with watery runny nose and eyes, a progressive cough stage with… …   Medical dictionary

• ounce — S3 [auns] n written abbreviation oz [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: unce, from Latin uncia twelfth part, ounce ] 1.) a unit for measuring weight, equal to 28.35 grams. There are 16 ounces in a pound. →↑fluid ounce 2.) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Precautionary principle — The precautionary principle is a moral and political principle which states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not… …   Wikipedia

• pre·ven·tion — /prıˈvɛnʃən/ noun [noncount] : the act or practice of stopping something bad from happening : the act of preventing something Exercise and diet play a role in the prevention of heart disease. crime/fire prevention (US) an ounce of prevention is… …   Useful english dictionary

• Environmental restoration — is a term common in the citizens’ environmental movement. Environmental restoration is closely allied with (or perhaps sometimes used interchangeably with) ecological restoration or environmental remediation . In the U.S., remediation is the term …   Wikipedia