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sanitation

UK/ˌsænɪˈteɪʃən/US/ˌsænɪˈteɪʃən/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,762 of 15,258leans written

Sanitation is the systems that keep drinking water and waste apart. Poor sanitation, improve sanitation, sanitation workers.

Doing that one thing has saved more lives than any drug ever invented, and cholera and typhoid disappear from a city as soon as it is done properly. Around two billion people still lack safely managed sanitation, which is why those diseases persist.

Definitions of sanitation

  1. 1nounsanitationThe systems that keep drinking water and waste apart.B2+

    “Poor sanitation in the camp led to an outbreak of cholera.”

sanitation is a system.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    sanitas — health

  2. French

    sanitaire

  3. English

    sanitary

  4. English, today

    sanitation

From sanitary + -ation. sanitary 19th century, borrowed from French sanitaire, formed from Latin sanitas (“health”). Analysable as sanity + -ary.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

sanitation in the wild

  • Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation, as is hand washing with soap.

    Sanitation

  • A range of sanitation technologies and approaches exists.

    Sanitation

  • The HRWS obliges governments to ensure that people can enjoy quality, available, acceptable, accessible, and affordable water and sanitation.

    Human right to water and sanitation

  • The ICESCR requires signatory countries to progressively achieve and respect all human rights, including those of water and sanitation.

    Human right to water and sanitation

  • Sanitation in ancient Rome, acquired from the Etruscans, was very advanced compared to other ancient cities and provided water supply and sanitation services to residents of Rome.

    Sanitation in ancient Rome

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the sanitas family

sanitysanitationsanitary

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