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sanitation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

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

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being clean and conducive to health making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing [syn: sanitization , sanitisation ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, irregularly formed from sanitary . Figurative use from 1934. As a euphemism for garbage (as in sanitation engineer ) first recorded 1939.

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.