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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sanitation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sanitation worker
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
poor
▪ And so it went on: poor or nonexistent sanitation, overcrowded dormitories, dull and unappetising food, workhouse conditions.
▪ Health inspectors were also concerned about the constant risk of epidemic diseases resulting from poor sanitation.
■ NOUN
worker
▪ He was assassinated the day after addressing a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everywhere there is a total lack of understanding about hygiene, antisepsis, and the importance of sanitation.
▪ He was assassinated the day after addressing a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
▪ It has inadequate sanitation facilities. 4.
▪ James had gone round the village with his father as soon as he was old enough, visiting tenants in cottages with no sanitation.
▪ The great infectious epidemics responded to a combination of improved sanitation and hygiene, vaccination programmes and antibiotics.
▪ The other approach worked with a scathing moral and religious attack on the concepts of hygiene and sanitation embedded in the legislation.
▪ There was very little sanitation the way we know sanitation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanitation

Sanitation \San`i*ta"tion\, n. The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.

How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century.
--H. Hartshorne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sanitation

1848, irregularly formed from sanitary. Figurative use from 1934. As a euphemism for garbage (as in sanitation engineer) first recorded 1939.

Wiktionary
sanitation

n. 1 The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste. 2 The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.

WordNet
sanitation
  1. n. the state of being clean and conducive to health

  2. making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing [syn: sanitization, sanitisation]

Wikipedia
Sanitation

Sanitation is the hygienic means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes as well as the treatment and proper disposal of sewage or wastewater. Hazards can be either physical, microbiological, biological or chemical agents of disease. Wastes that can cause health problems include human and animal excreta, solid wastes, domestic wastewater (sewage or greywater) industrial wastes and agricultural wastes. Hygienic means of prevention can be by using engineering solutions (e.g., sanitary sewers, sewage treatment, surface runoff management, solid waste management, excreta management), simple technologies (e.g., pit latrines, dry toilets, urine-diverting dry toilets, septic tanks), or even simply by behavior changes in personal hygiene practices, such as hand washing with soap.

Providing sanitation to people requires a systems approach, rather than only focusing on the toilet or wastewater treatment plant itself. The experience of the user, excreta and wastewater collection methods, transportation or conveyance of waste, treatment, and reuse or disposal all need to be thoroughly considered.

The main objective of a sanitation system is to protect and promote human health by providing a clean environment and breaking the cycle of disease.

Usage examples of "sanitation".

Consequently there was practically nothing that we could not tackle between the three of us, either in bacteriology, pathology, sanitation or treatment of epidemic disease.

After that came pyramids and crystals, positive and negative ion generators, a grow-your-own-clone booth, a tarot reader, a palmist, a noodle stand, cheap body organs and cyberware, another noodle stand, soykaf, a Sidewalk Doc, and a group of masked men big enough to be orks, all wearing the black hoods, jumpsuits, gloves, and boots of the Sanitation Department.

Senior Captain Lo Prek was eventually picked up by a press gang of Tahn civilians under the direction of an Imperial sanitation expert, loaded onto a gravsled, and taken outside the city.

Filtration and sanitation plant: discovered pump had been allowed to run with outlet valve shut, with resuit that electrical demand for motor increased, boiling water inside pump.

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Though, in theory, the French are most excellent sanitarians and as a country revere the name of Pasteur, while we have forgotten, if we ever did know, the name of Lister, in practice they are about as poor a nation in practical sanitation as it is possible to be.

Most disturbing was the same appalling indifference to sanitation that Adams knew from Dr.

Wheel, metals, sanitation, all of it on first glance preelectrical, and first glance had most of it right, except for some process through which they charged their weapons.

For medieval Spanish sanitation, invented by Arabs, bringers of civilisation to the European world.

The intensity of the concern with sanitation amazed him: wells and fountains and public privies everywhere, and brick drains running from each building, leading to covered cesspools.

Hogg had a confused image of the Moorish Empire: dirty men in robes, kasbahs without modern sanitation, heartening smells of things the sun had got at, muezzins, cockfights, shady men in unshaven hiding, the waves slapping naughty naughty at boats full of contraband goods.

Mercer Meats adheres to, in fact, surpasses all USDA requirements for meat processing in terms of sanitation and sterilization.

The United Nations reported that increased electrical outages, coupled with shortages of spare parts for vehicles, were having a severe impact on hospitals, water supply, and sanitation facilities.

These policies in turn prompted a major migration from rural areas to the cities, whose populations were heavily dependent on imported food, as well as government-supplied water, power, and sanitation.

Nothing but SUM could have controlled the firefly dance of a million aircars among the towers: or, for that matter, have maintained the entire city, from nuclear powerplants through automated factories, physical and economic distribution networks, sanitation, repair, services, education, culture, order, everything as one immune immortal organism.