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pandemic

(pændemɪk)
Word forms: plural pandemics
countable noun
A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area.
[formal]
They feared a new cholera pandemic.
One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.

pandemic in British English

(pænˈdɛmɪk)
adjective
1. 
(of a disease) affecting persons over a wide geographical area; extensively epidemic
noun
2. 
a pandemic disease
Word origin
C17: from Late Latin pandēmus, from Greek pandēmos general, from pan- + demos the people

pandemic in American English

(pænˈdɛmɪk)
adjective
1. 
prevalent over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region
said of a disease
noun
2. 
a pandemic disease
Word origin
< LL pandemus < Gr pandēmos < pan, all (see pan-) + dēmos, the people: see democracy

Examples of 'pandemic' in a sentence
pandemic

The launch of the pandemic flu information service was also under his leadership.
Computing (2010)
THE year you were born can affect your chances of surviving a future bird flu pandemic, researchers say.
The Sun (2016)
Experts have been warning for years that another worldwide flu pandemic is inevitable.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Could a computer game save us from a global pandemic?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The new vaccine for the pandemic strain is being trialled on nursing staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The potential bird flu pandemic is a worry.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Experts have been predicting for years that the world is due for a flu pandemic.
The Sun (2009)
It will also take between three and six months to design a vaccine against a pandemic strain.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Gilts benefited from the global flu pandemic fears that led a rush to the safety of government bonds.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Alternatively we could use it as soon as we got the slightest inkling of a pandemic strain emerging.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If it does, the result is likely to be a global pandemic.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It depends on whether you're talking about avian flu or pandemic flu.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But... it is right to prepare for the possibility of a global pandemic.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
On top of that, an effective vaccine can be designed only once the precise pandemic strain is known.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The knowledge could help combat bird flu, which health experts fear may sweep the world in a human pandemic.
The Sun (2007)
Intensive care units would be unable to cope with the extra demands of a bird flu pandemic, a specialist has said.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The vaccine would not protect against a pandemic strain, for which a totally new vaccine would need to be produced at top speed.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The Spanish flu pandemic that followed killed more than 50m people in one year.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
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