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Action Odds Future Event Prevent Fight Hospital Law

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If you take action a______ a possible future event, you try to prevent it.If you take action against a possible future event, you try to prevent it.
...the fight against crime.
They are arguing against hospital closures.
I must warn you against raising your hopes.
word against
full-definition
preposition
If one thing is leaning or pressing against another, it is touching it.
She leaned against him.
On a table pushed against a wall there were bottles of water.
...the rain beating against the window panes.
If you are against something such as a plan, policy, or system, you think it is wrong, bad, or stupid .
Taxes are unpopular–it is understandable that voters are against them.
Joan was very much against commencing drug treatment.
...a march to protest against job losses.
The vote for the suspension of the party was 283 in favour with 29 against.
If you compete against someone in a game, you try to beat them.
The tour will include games against the Australian Barbarians.
He had rescheduled his fight against the British champion.
If you take action against someone or something, you try to harm them.
Security forces are still using violence against opponents of the government.
...demonstrations against the war.
If you take action against a possible future event, you try to prevent it.
...the fight against crime.
They are arguing against hospital closures.
I must warn you against raising your hopes.
If you do something against someone's wishes, advice, or orders, you do not do what they want you to do or tell you to do.
He didn't want to go against the wishes of the government.
He discharged himself from hospital against the advice of doctors.
If you do something in order to protect yourself against something unpleasant or harmful, you do something which will make its effects on you less serious if it happens .
A business needs insurance against risks such as fire and flood.
It has been claimed that fish oils protect against heart disease.
If something is against the law or against the rules, there is a law or a rule which says that you must not do it.
It is against the law to detain you against your will for any length of time.
We thought cheating was against the rules.
If you are moving against a current, tide, or wind, you are moving in the opposite direction to it.
...swimming upstream against the current.
They were going to sail around the little island, against the tide.
If something happens or is considered against a particular background of events, it is considered in relation to those events, because those events are relevant to it.
The profits rise was achieved against a backdrop of falling metal prices.
If something is measured or valued against something else, it is measured or valued by comparing it with the other thing.
Our policy has to be judged against a clear test: will it improve the standard of education?
Check the operator's productivity against agreed targets.
The U.S. dollar is down against most foreign currencies today.
The odds against something happening are the chances or odds that it will not happen.
The odds against him surviving are incredible.
What were the odds against?
inflections anti
cefr-level A2

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