sanitation

Noun

Meaning

The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hygiene cleanliness sanitization sanitisation public health epidemiology health sewerage fumigation purity cleaning purification sewage bathing cleansing
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

infection feculence contagiousness communicability insanitation

Hypernyms

cleaning cleansing cleanup sanitariness

Related terms

sanitary sanitize sanitise sanitization sanitarian sanitisation

Phrases with the word

poor sanitation sanitation worker sanitation employee

Anagrams

snatiation

Examples

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. Bjorn Lomborg

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. Bjorn Lomborg

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. Jim Yong Kim

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want. Anna Quindlen

Close letter words and terms

sanitaryware Sanitas sanitate sanitation department sanitation engineer sanitation engineering