to prevent spam
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3.3
- phrasal verb
- Texting
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prevenir el spam
- Moderators review posts before approval to prevent spam and maintain quality content.
Examples
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Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam.
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Techniques used to prevent "spam bots" from harvesting email addresses will be revealed.
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This is important to prevent spam and personal attacks.
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Please note: in order to prevent spam on the site, comments are read by an actual human prior to publication!
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In this paper, we will introduce a new and efficient approach to prevent spam emails from being transferred.
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The system auto-moderates new user comments to prevent spam and keep the comments section clean of irrelevant content.
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Note: HTML code will not work except for bare URLs (i.e., http://www ...). Also, for postings older than 1 week, comments are filtered manually to prevent spam and so may not appear for a few days.
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The website uses various filters to prevent spam from cluttering the comments section.
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To prevent spam, users must verify their email address before posting comments.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to take measures to stop unwanted electronic messages' is directly and compositionally derived from 'prevent' (to hinder) plus 'spam' (unsolicited messages). This straightforward verb + noun combination follows normal English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Prevent spam paints a simple picture: imagine putting a guard or a net in front of your email to stop spam, the 'unwanted messages', from getting through. So, to prevent spam means to take steps that stop those 'unwanted messages' from reaching your inbox.