modern sanitation

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandsanitation

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modern
adjective
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/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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sanitation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌsæn.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsæn.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect ...
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(Definition ofmodernandsanitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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How can we provide tourist chalets, about which we have been hearing, without water supplies, electricity, sewerage schemes andmodernsanitation?
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Until recent times there was nomodernsanitation; there were privy middens and disease-spreading ash middens.
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My constituent was not expecting to be connected tomodernsanitation; he was in some ways quite satisfied with the existing state of affairs.
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The cell blocks have nomodernsanitation, and even men living three to a cell are required to slop out.
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It may be said that the success ofmodernsanitationdepends largely upon compulsion.
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There are streets of old, decaying houses lacking a bath and withoutmodernsanitation, with gross overcrowding, dirt, a complete absence of space for play and recreation—in a word, squalor.
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They have very limited security of tenure, and without that they are unable to spend money on such amenities as a club house and reasonablymodernsanitation.
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Modernsanitationwas not widely adopted until the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Modernsanitationsystems and advances in medicine protected large populations from disease.
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The building's 42 hotel rooms are also very similar to their 1894 counterparts, but the bathrooms were renovated in 2007 to meetmodernsanitationstandards.
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In 1940 the house was requisitioned by the army and then abandoned when they found it had no electricity, running water ormodernsanitation.
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Many but not all of the old wings have been knocked down and replaced with new units provided withmodernsanitationfacilities.
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Such a function may be useful in a culture lackingmodernsanitationand healthcare practice, where diarrhea may be prevalent.
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Withoutmodernsanitationand supplies, diseases surge.
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