| 单词 | public nuisance |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspublic nuisance public nuisance n. a thing or act that causes annoyance, inconvenience, or danger to the community; (Law) the crime of doing or not doing something which interferes with the exercise of a right common to all (cf. private nuisance n. at private adj.1, adv., and n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iv. §67. 228 Shall it bee a fault to straiten and encumber the Kings high way with publique nuisances? 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 486 Instead of being useful to society by their industry, they become public nuisances by their vices and disorders. View more context for this quotation 1877 A. Trollope Amer. Senator I. xxvii. 288 ‘What a very queer bird he is.’ ‘He is a public nuisance.’ 1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 213 The police under Whalen..wrecked many a noble barroom under the public nuisance law. 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 169 Seven of us have got to go to court in two months on a charge of causing a public nuisance. 2004 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 19/4 Cockling gangs have been a serious public nuisance in Morecambe Bay for some time. < as lemmas |
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