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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nuisance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
public nuisance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bloody
▪ And it was a bloody nuisance having all those people clomping through the field on Sundays!
▪ She was glad he liked Middy despite his being a bloody nuisance at times.
▪ They must have been a bloody nuisance.
private
▪ We have considered the tort of private nuisance; public nuisance should also be mentioned.
▪ The civil law, mainly through the torts of trespass and private nuisance, also had a role to play.
public
▪ The aim of the law of public nuisance is to prevent interference with the rights of the public at large.
▪ Those who reside or work where zoning laws prohibit public nuisances need not apply.
▪ We have considered the tort of private nuisance; public nuisance should also be mentioned.
▪ The children targeted were a public eyesore, nuisance, or perceived threat.
▪ Are there no controls over the extent to which a demented public servant can make a public nuisance of himself?
▪ Tell that woman she is a public nuisance.
▪ I therefore reject the submission that a public nuisance requires an unlawful act.
▪ She should be declared a public nuisance and paved over for a parking lot.
statutory
▪ He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance.
■ NOUN
noise
▪ Fighting factory pollution and noise nuisance problems.
▪ Nuisances: A streamlining of local authority procedures to make the tackling of noise nuisances simpler is proposed.
▪ I wonder how many motorcyclists are made aware of the noise nuisance that they produce?
▪ We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance.
order
▪ Defences Two defences are available to a defendant in proceedings for a nuisance order.
▪ If the complaint is proved, a nuisance order is made requiring the defendant to get the necessary work done.
■ VERB
abate
▪ They must first order the respondent to abate the nuisance.
amount
▪ Consequently, odours may amount to a public nuisance if they substantially inconvenience a sufficient number of people.
▪ The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law?
become
▪ And yet it is no wonder that Lear, with all his knights, is becoming a nuisance.
▪ His battalion commander was becoming a nuisance.
▪ I fear that from becoming perhaps a local nuisance he will become a pest.
▪ I tried to discourage him, but in the end he became a little bit of a nuisance, you know?
▪ That my being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods and all that was becoming a nuisance.
▪ Peckham Fair, south London fair and menagerie of ancient origin, abolished in 1827 after becoming a nuisance.
▪ When food is short, the balance changes and the spinsters become a nuisance.
▪ Further into the middle of the site and positive iron became a nuisance.
cause
▪ The foxes cause little nuisance, whereas domestic pets befoul the streets, parks and gardens.
▪ It led to the famous judgement of Sir James Stephen, that cremation is legal provided it causes no nuisance to others.
▪ It is First Alert that has targeted low concentrations and caused most of the nuisance alarms, he said.
make
▪ Some, as you know, seek revenge - they riot, they take drugs and generally make damned nuisances of themselves.
▪ Dropouts from drama school who had learned just enough about theatricality to make a nuisance of themselves.
▪ I've got some one from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves.
▪ Once he went up there and ran around making a nuisance.
▪ He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused.
▪ What was so fascinating about him that they had to make themselves a nuisance around him?
▪ I was instructed not to be too early - to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself.
▪ It's just I don't relish any of Jahsaxa's colleagues making a nuisance of themselves here.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thorough pest/nuisance/mess
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Rabbits can be a nuisance to gardeners.
▪ The overgrown vacant lot was declared a public nuisance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Compass errors are an awful nuisance and it is well worth finding out a little about them.
▪ He says it is a nuisance but he's putting up with it.
▪ His battalion commander was becoming a nuisance.
▪ Missing are neighborhood and business associations: two groups that pushed hard during the former administration for a crackdown on nuisance crimes.
▪ She said he was a nuisance and that the council ought to do something about it.
▪ The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment.
▪ They were a necessary nuisance that provided the rationale for what Bureau men really loved to do: build majestic dams.
▪ Wet, moldy basements may be more than a nuisance.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nuisance

Nuisance \Nui"sance\, n. [OE. noisance, OF. noisance, nuisance, fr. L. nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm; akin to necare to kill. Cf Necromancy, Nocent, Noxious, Pernicious.] That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nuisance

c.1400, "injury, hurt, harm," from Anglo-French nusaunce, Old French nuisance "harm, wrong, damage," from past participle stem of nuire "to harm," from Latin nocere "to hurt" (see noxious). Sense has softened over time, to "anything obnoxious to a community" (bad smells, pests, eyesores), 1660s, then "source of annoyance, something personally disagreeable" (1831). Applied to persons from 1690s.

Wiktionary
nuisance

n. 1 A minor annoyance or inconvenience. 2 A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience. 3 (context legal English) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

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WordNet
nuisance

  1. n. (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive

  2. a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" [syn: pain, pain in the neck]

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Wikipedia
Nuisance

Nuisance (from archaic nocence, through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat. nocere, "to hurt") is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public (also "common") or private. A public nuisance was defined by English scholar Sir J. F. Stephen as,

"an act not warranted by law, or an omission to discharge a legal duty, which act or omission obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects".

Private nuisance is the interference with the right of specific people. Nuisance is one of the oldest causes of action known to the common law, with cases framed in nuisance going back almost to the beginning of recorded case law. Nuisance signifies that the "right of quiet enjoyment" is being disrupted to such a degree that a tort is being committed.

Nuisance (album)

Nuisance is the debut studio album by British rock band Menswear, released on 24 October 1995 by Laurel. The album was preceded by "I'll Manage Somehow", "Daydreamer" and "Stardust"; the former charted in the top 40 while the latter two charted in the top 20. The album peaked at number 11 on the UK album chart.

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Usage examples of "nuisance".

My first experiences in Egypt, pursuing mummies and climbing up and down cliffs, had convinced me that trailing skirts and tight corsets were a confounded nuisance in that ambience For many years my working costume had consisted of pith helmet and shirtwaist, boots, and Turkish trousers, or bloomers.

Presumably Cyder had a small army of well-trained muscle standing by ready to jump on anyone who made a nuisance of themselves.

A new bride was a deuced nuisance, and that flame-haired widow could make any man forget his own wife, even if the wife was a tiny golden-haired beauty.

Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable .

These seekers of the earthy and very effable delights of his house quickly became a nuisance, and Bardo had to begin issuing invitations to his joyances.

To guys like Kroun the law was only a minor nuisance, not a major threat.

June 8, three days after Israel launched the war, Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai had become nuisances.

Additionally, the sky-car must be protected against every manner of damage, nuisance and misfortune, including pilferage, destruction, curiosity, tampering, vandalism, defilement, removal or concealment.

This caused her much embarrassment, since he persisted in being near her, making a puppyish nuisance of himself.

Both in Virginia and in Maryland the infliction of this rabble of simonists as a burden upon the public treasury was a nuisance under which the people grew more and more restive from year to year.

It was in an action for nuisance before Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, at Croydon Assizes.

He was cut everywhere mail had not protected his skin, cloth torn and tattered, but the gashes were shallow, a mere nuisance.

Queen Mother of Ulus seemed to serve no other purpose in life except to make herself a nuisance to him.

Although this was something of a nuisance Wiggy could not bring herself to dispose of it.

We are two of the Ashton party and I see that we have arrived before Ernest: a bit of a nuisance.