mass burial

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandburial

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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burial
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈber.i.əl/us
/ˈber.i.əl/
the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected ...
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(Definition ofmassandburialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Each site used formassburialwill be reviewed.
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If other options are exhausted, we shall on occasion still have to turn to licensed landfills andmassburialsites.
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For example, sites for themassburialof carcases were rapidly identified with no proper arrangements for consulting the local community being made.
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Massburialalso carries its own health and environmental difficulties, and raises important questions about local consent and the acceptability of some of the proposals that are now under consideration.
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If themassburialand burning sites were included in the national contingency plan or the local contingency plan, that was not thought through very well.
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I accept that concern for the environment has increased since the 1967 outbreak, but instead of on-farm burial, it was decided to havemassburialand burning pits.
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There are also restrictions that apply tomassburialand cremation sites, with flying not permitted below 1,000 feet for a radius of two nautical miles around the site.
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To the west were foundmassburialgrounds for the labourers forced to build the complex.
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The remains of the victims were interred in amassburial.
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As of 2008, exhuming and identifying the bodies in almost 60 identified but unopenedmassburialsites remains a problem.
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Massburialsites were dug to bury the victims.
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In nonstandard burial practices, such asmassburial, the body may be positioned arbitrarily.
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They were buried in amassburialnear the wreck site.
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Massburialis the practice of burying multiple bodies in one location.
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There are 55 markedmassburialsites in the forest.
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There has not been any research into the psychological difficulties likely to be experienced by those involved in mass burials in the event of war.
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