Nuisance

  • 21nuisance — nui|sance [ nusəns ] noun * 1. ) count usually singular something that is annoying and is a continuing problem: The bugs in the software were a nuisance. What a nuisance that we can t use the school hall. a bit of a nuisance: These flies are a… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 22nuisance — noun 1 (countable usually singular) a person, thing, or situation that annoys you or causes problems: Those dogs next door are a thorough nuisance. | What a nuisance! spoken: What a nuisance! I ve forgotten my ticket. | make a nuisance of… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 23nuisance — (nui zan s ) s. f. Qualité de ce qui nuit. Les nuisances politiques et sociales. •   Quand il a fallu [en Angleterre] créer une législation sur les établissements insalubres, définir les nuisances et régler les formes de l autorisation....,… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 24nuisance — [[t]nju͟ːs(ə)ns, AM nu͟ː [/t]] nuisances N COUNT: usu sing If you say that someone or something is a nuisance, you mean that they annoy you or cause you a lot of problems. He could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk... Sorry to be a… …

    English dictionary

  • 25nuisance — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ great, real ▪ minor ▪ public ▪ He was charged with committing a public nuisance. PREPOSITION …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 26nuisance — Anything that works hurt, inconvenience, or damage to another. Prior v White, 132 Fla 1, 180 So 347, 116 ALR 1176; Hofstetter v Myers, 170 Kan 564, 228 P2d 522, 24 ALR2d 188. Any thing done by one which annoys or disturbs another in the free use …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 27nuisance — kenksmingieji veiksniai statusas Aprobuotas sritis karo inžinerija apibrėžtis Veiksniai (triukšmas, dūmai, dulkės, garai, kvapai ar šviesa), kenkiantys ar galintys kenkti žmonių sveikatai arba trukdyti naudotis žeme ir tenkinti savo poreikius.… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 28nuisance — See: PUBLIC NUISANCE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 29nuisance — See: PUBLIC NUISANCE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 30nuisance — [15] Nuisance has become much less serious over the centuries. When English originally acquired it, it meant ‘harm, injury’ (‘Helpe me to weye ageyn the feend … keepe vs from his nusance’, Thomas Hoccleve, Mother of God 1410), reflecting its… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins