fagless environment
- noun
- Slang
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- After the smoking ban, many cafes became a fagless environment where families felt welcome.
Examples
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The hotel proudly advertised its fagless environment to attract non-smokers.
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She appreciated the fagless environment in her new office building.
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I love working in a fagless environment.
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Many people prefer a fagless environment for their health.
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After the smoking ban, many cafes became a fagless environment where families felt welcome.
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She appreciated the fagless environment in her new office building.
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The hotel proudly advertised its fagless environment to attract non-smokers.
How Smoke-Free
Surface Forms
Morphology
fagless + environment
The phrase is compositionally built from 'fag' + the suffix '-less' and 'environment', so if a learner knows 'fag' (British informal for cigarette) and understands '-less' meaning 'without', they can derive 'an environment without cigarettes'. However 'fag' is slang, polysemous and potentially offensive, and 'fagless' is nonstandard, so many B1 learners would not reliably recognise the constituent meaning—making the expression only partially predictable.
Etymology
Fagless environment uses the British slang fag for a 'cigarette' and the ending -less meaning 'without'. So, it creates the image of a place with no cigarettes or cigarette smoke, which is why it means 'a place where smoking is not allowed'.