nuisance : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a nuisance that can remedied (suppressed or extinguished or rendered harmless)
  
  • the continued existence of an abatable nuisance is not authorized under the law

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• noun (law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
  abatement of a nuisance.
  

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• noun anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm; they should fence it in"
  
  • their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance

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• noun a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public
  common nuisance.
  
  • a public nuisance offends the public at large

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• (Law), that which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large.

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• noun a nuisance that is both a public nuisance and a private nuisance at the same time
  

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• noun (law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
  abatement of a nuisance.
  

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• noun a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer
  sales tax.
  

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• noun the quality of an embarrassing situation
  awkwardness.
  
  • he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal

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• noun a nuisance that interferes with your interest in and private use and enjoyment of your land
  

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• . See Nuisance.

Webster 1913

• noun a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public
  common nuisance.
  
  • a public nuisance offends the public at large

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• . (Law) See under Nuisance.

Webster 1913