SICK BUILDING SYNDROME

Meaning of SICK BUILDING SYNDROME in English

noun

[ U ] a condition that affects people who work in large offices, making them feel tired and causing headaches, sore eyes and breathing problems, thought to be caused by, for example, the lack of fresh air or by chemicals in the air

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

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 — ˌsick ˈbuilding ˌsyndrome BrE AmE noun [uncountable] when chemicals and ↑ germ s stay in an office building and make …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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