disaster zone

collocation in English

meaningsofdisasterandzone

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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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zone
noun[C]
uk
/zəʊn/us
/zoʊn/
an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for ...
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(Definition ofdisasterandzonefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Clearly, for many who entered thedisasterzoneeither physically or metaphorically, there were important things at stake in this reportage.
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Expatriate architects, traversing the samedisasterzone, produced a series of reports, journal articles, and even newspapers accounts which often contradicted the observations of the seismologists.
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How can you consent to telephone operators cutting off the only means of contact for people in thisdisasterzone?
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He said one official had described the area as adisasterzone.
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Fifteen ports were located in thedisasterzone.
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An additional 6,000 people were evacuated from the city, which was placed on red alert and declared adisasterzone.
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Critical medicines have been shipped to everydisasterzonearound the globe to provide assistance to humans in need.
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The governor declared the state as adisasterzoneafter 13 rivers exceeded their banks, and two entire villages were washed away.
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He arrived in thedisasterzoneearly, and personally rescued 13 survivors and carried about 200 bodies out of the wreckage.
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Wilmington turned into adisasterzone, with flooded highways, and downed trees lying across roadways.
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In the immediate term, the need to assemble aid and coordinate its distribution is fundamental, particularly in inaccessible parts of the disaster zones.
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It has been suggested that the rats could be used to carry cameras to people trapped in disaster zones.
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Moree and numerous other shires were declared natural disaster zones.
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The skills cultivated on those same battlefields-emergency medicine, risk assessment and mitigation, teamwork, and decisive leadership-are invaluable in disaster zones.
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Instead of cutting the umbilical cord, for instance, she burns itespecially in disaster zones, because it's something she can teach midwives and doctors who have lost their instruments.
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It is adapted from a commercial vehicle and as it is not a flatbed truck, is presumably used to transport cylindrical heavy objects to and from disaster zones.
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These can include working in post-conflict or natural disaster zones, improving public services in developing communities (health, education, infrastructure, agriculture) or aiding private sector growth through business and market models.
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