SICK BUILDING SYNDROME

Meaning of SICK BUILDING SYNDROME in English

ˌsick ˈbuilding ˌsyndrome BrE AmE noun [uncountable]

when chemicals and ↑ germ s stay in an office building and make the people who work there feel ill:

A common household fungus can contribute to sick building syndrome.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman - Словарь современного английского языка. 2012

SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — noun Date: 1983 a set of symptoms (as headache, fatigue, and eye irritation) typically affecting workers in modern airtight office …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — noun : a set of symptoms (as headache, fatigue, and eye irritation) typically affecting workers in modern airtight office buildings …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — an illness caused by exposure to pollutants or germs inside an airtight building. [ 1980-85 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — Date: 1983 : a set of symptoms (as headache, fatigue, and eye irritation) typically affecting workers in modern airtight office …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — Function: noun Date: 1983 : a set of symptoms (as headache, fatigue, and eye irritation) typically affecting workers in modern …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — ■ noun a condition affecting office workers, typically marked by headaches and respiratory problems, attributed to factors such as poor …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — noun [ U ] a condition that affects people who work in large offices, making them feel tired and causing …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — Sick building syndrome is a group of conditions, including headaches, sore eyes, and tiredness, which people who work in offices …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — Sick building syndrome is a group of conditions, including headaches, sore eyes, and tiredness, which people who work in offices …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It believes that the economic evidence on the significance of sick building syndrome is of …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME — Building whose occupants experience acute health and/or comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent therein, but where …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
SYNDROME — noun see: dromedary Date: 1541 a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SYNDROME — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) severe acute respiratory syndrome battered woman syndrome carpal tunnel syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome Cushing …
Английский словарь Британика
BUILDING — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) building code building construction Chrysler Building Empire State Building high rise building {{link=Seagram Building">Seagram …
Английский словарь Британика
SICK — I. ˈsik adjective ( usually -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English sik, sek, seke, from Old English sēoc; akin to Middle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SYNDROME — ˈsinˌdrōm sometimes -_drəm or -drə(ˌ)mē or -drəmi noun ( -s ) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek syndromē act of running …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SYNDROME — (n.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
Английский словарь Webster
SYNDROME — (n.) Concurrence.
Английский словарь Webster
SYNDROME — ( n. ) Concurrence.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SYNDROME — — syndromic /sin drom"ik/ , adj. /sin"drohm, -dreuhm/ , n. 1. Pathol. , Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SICK — sick 1 /sik/ , adj., sicker, sickest , n. adj. 1. afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing. 2. affected …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BUILDING — — buildingless , adj. /bil"ding/ , n. 1. a relatively permanent enclosed construction over a plot of land, having a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SICK — I. ˈsik adjective Etymology: Middle English sek, sik, from Old English sēoc; akin to Old High German sioh sick Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SYNDROME — -drəm noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek syndromē combination, syndrome, from syn- + dramein to run — more at dromedary …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SYNDROME — noun concurrence. 2. syndrome ·noun a group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, …
Webster English vocab
SICK — noun sickness. 2. sick ·superl corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. 3. sick ·vi to fall sick; to sicken. 4. sick ·superl …
Webster English vocab
BUILDING — noun the act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. 2. building ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of build. 3. building ·noun the art …
Webster English vocab
SYNDROME — [syn.drome] n [NL, fr. Gk syndrome combination, syndrome, fr. syn- + dramein to run--more at dromedary] (1541) 1: a group …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SYNDROME — syndrome BrE AmE ˈsɪn drəʊm -drəm AmE \ -droʊm —Formerly also -drə ʊ m i ▷ syndrome|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SICK — sick BrE AmE sɪk ▷ sicker ˈsɪk ə AmE \ ˈsɪk ə r ▷ sickest ˈsɪk ɪst -əst ▶ ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BUILDING — building BrE AmE ˈbɪld ɪŋ ▷ building|s z ▶ ˈ building block BrE AmE ▶ ˈ building so ˌ ciety …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SYNDROME — / ˈsɪndrəʊm; NAmE -droʊm/ noun 1. a set of physical conditions that show you have a particular disease or medical …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SICK — / sɪk; NAmE / adjective , noun , verb ■ adjective ILL 1. physically or mentally ill : a sick …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUILDING — / ˈbɪldɪŋ; NAmE / noun 1. [ C ] a structure such as a house or school that has a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SYNDROME — syn ‧ drome /ˈsɪndrəʊm $ -droʊm/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: Modern Latin ; Origin: Greek …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SICK — I. sick 1 S1 W3 /sɪk/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ sick , the sick, ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BUILDING — build ‧ ing S1 W1 /ˈbɪldɪŋ/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ build , ↑ builder , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SICK — adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 (often in comb.) esp. Brit. vomiting or tending to vomit (feels sick; has been …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SICK — adj., n., & v. adj. 1 (often in comb.) esp. Brit. vomiting or tending to vomit (feels sick; has been …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BUILDING — n. 1 a permanent fixed structure forming an enclosure and providing protection from the elements etc. (e.g. a house, school, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SICK — 1. adj., n., & v. --adj. 1. (often in comb.) esp. Brit. vomiting or tending to vomit (feels sick; has …
Oxford English vocab
BUILDING — n.1 a permanent fixed structure forming an enclosure and providing protection from the elements etc. (e.g. a house, school, factory, …
Oxford English vocab
SYNDROME — ( syndromes) 1. A syndrome is a medical condition that is characterized by a particular group of signs and symptoms. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SICK — ( sicker, sickest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SYNDROME — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Asperger's syndrome carpal tunnel syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome Down's syndrome economy class syndrome irritable bowel …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SICK — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cruel/sick joke (= very unkind ) ▪ When I heard he had cancer, …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUILDING — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a building programme ▪ We will continue with our hospital building programme. a building/construction boom …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SYNDROME — [noun] [C] - a combination of medical problems that commonly go together, which might show the existence of a particular …
Cambridge English vocab
BUILDING — [noun] - a structure with walls and a roof such as a house or factory, or the business of making …
Cambridge English vocab
SYNDROME — n. acquired immunodeficiency syndrome severe acute respiratory syndrome battered woman syndrome carpal tunnel syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome Cushing syndrome Down …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BUILDING — n. House of Building building code building construction Chrysler Building Empire State Building high rise building Seagram Building
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SYNDROME — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ acute ▪ clinical ▪ Asperger's , chronic fatigue , etc. VERB + SYNDROME ▪ have , suffer …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BUILDING — noun 1 house, church, school, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ big , high-rise , huge , large , massive , tall , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SICK — See ↑ ILL/SICK 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be worried sick • ↑ feel sick • ↑ it makes me sick …
Longman Activator English vocab
SICK — INDEX: 1. ill 2. slightly ill 3. when someone is often ill 4. someone who imagines they are ill 5. …
Longman Activator English vocab
BUILDING — INDEX: 1. to build something 2. the process of building houses, roads etc 3. the design of buildings 4. a …
Longman Activator English vocab
SICK — n. 25B6; adjective the children are sick : ILL, unwell, poorly, ailing, indisposed, not oneself; Brit. off colour; informal laid …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SICK — adj. 1 Chiefly Brit nauseated, queasy, sick to one's stomach, squeamish, qualmish; seasick, carsick, airsick, Colloq green around the gills …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SYNDROME — A syndrome is the combination of symptoms and signs which together represent a disease process.
English Dictionary of Medicine
SYNDROME — сущ.; мед. синдром, совокупность симптомов down syndrome ≈ болезнь Дауна Syn : symptom (медицина) синдром, совокупность симптомов цепь взаимосвязанных событий, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SICK — I прил. 1) а) преим. амер. больной, болезненный; нездоровый, испытывающий недомогание sick to one's stomach ≈ имеющий слабый, болезненный желудок …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BUILDING — сущ. 1) здание, постройка; сооружение, строение, стройка to build, erect, put up ≈ построить здание to renovate a building ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SYNDROME — syndrome.ogg ʹsındrəʋm n 1. мед. синдром, совокупность симптомов 2. цепь взаимосвязанных событий, сочетание явлений ( общественной жизни и т. п. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SICK — sick.ogg _I 1. sık n 1. (the sick) больные to heal the sick - лечить больных 2. 1> болезнь 2> …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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