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sanitation|sænɪˈteɪʃən|
[irreg. f. sanitary) + -ation.]
1. The devising and application of means for the improvement of sanitary conditions. Also spec. (the provision of) toilet facilities.
1848Cleve (title) Hints on Domestic Sanitation. 1880Jefferies Hodge & M. II. 242 Rural sanitation, again, comes to the front day by day. 1881P. Robinson Under the Punkah 84 The Government sent down its chiefs of sanitation. 1901V. Bethell Monte Carlo Anecdotes p. xii (Advt.), Hotel Metropole... Sumptuous private suites, excellent cuisine, perfect sanitation. 1934M. V. Hughes London Child x. 117 Sanitation was not known at Reskadinnick, neither earth nor water nor any such thing.
2. In Comb., designating a person or vehicle employed in the removal and disposal of domestic refuse, as sanitation man, sanitation truck, sanitation van (U.S.).
1939N.Y. Times 16 Sept. 19/2 Sweepers and drivers..will be known as ‘*sanitation men’. 1975New Yorker 8 Sept. 111/1 The city paid the sanitationmen $713,500 at time-and-a-half rates to clean up the debris that had accumulated because the strikers had refused to collect it.
1958N.Y. Times 18 Nov. 26/6 ‘Some kind of job action’ by the crews of *sanitation trucks can be expected. 1974Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 23 Apr. 3b/4 Among the critically hurt was a crewman on a sanitation truck that happened to be picking up refuse at the..building.
1973Times 27 Aug. 5/7 My wife explained that this caper was weightier than that by defining dust cart as Garbage truck, or, in Current American, *sanitation van.
Hence saniˈtationist, one who is skilled in or who advocates sanitation.
1888Pall Mall G. 27 Aug. 4/1 ‘Sanitationists’ (will that be the terrible word?) will contract to supply so much public health per 1,000 for so much a year. 1894Liberal 24 Nov. 42/2 Such farseeing sanitationists. |