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vaccination

vaccination

85 3.0
Giving a vaccine to a person or animal to protect them from disease
  • noun
  • /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
: vacunación
  • OK, this is my COVID vaccination record card.
  • influenza vaccination
  • vaccination for public health
  • mandatory vaccination

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Examples

  • Many people joined the clinic to receive their vaccination for measles.

  • The aim of community-wide mass vaccination is to reduce or eliminate disease resulting from infection.

    Academic text (1992)
  • You have been given your vaccination, right?

  • It's really no more than getting a vaccination, her mother said.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • And this journey is made possible by the pace of the vaccination program in England.

  • And of course the USA has much lower vaccination rates than we do.

  • Look, the point is, encouraging vaccination through the church is a great idea.

  • Various approaches to mandatory vaccination of health care workers have been successfully used throughout the United States.

    Academic text (2011)
  • There was an ongoing public distrust of vaccination as something dangerous.

  • It is the biggest vaccination program the UK's ever run.

Synonyms

immunization
vsvaccination
  • Specialized
28 3.7

The process of protecting a person from disease by giving a vaccine

is the act of giving a vaccine to protect a person or animal
inoculation
vsvaccination
  • Specialized
14 4.0

To put a vaccine into the body to help the body fight a disease

uses only a vaccine to protect a person or animal from specific disease
inoculating
vsvaccination
  • Specialized
1 3.9

Putting a vaccine into a person's body to protect them from disease

focuses only on using a vaccine to protect a person or animal from disease
vaccinating
vsvaccination
3.7

Giving a vaccine to protect people from disease

names the act itself rather than expressing it as an action

Compounds

Opposition to vaccines because people think they are not needed or unsafe

ring vaccination
  • Specialized
1 3.7

Vaccinating people who were close to someone who had the disease to stop it spreading

How Preventive

preventive medicine
  • Specialized
6 3.9
vaccination
85 3.0
prophylaxis
  • Specialized
3 8.2
hygiene
75 2.2

Surface Forms

vaccination singular
vaccinations plural

Morphology

vaccination = vaccinate (transparent) = vaccine + ation

Formed by the noun-formation suffix '-ation' added to the verb 'vaccinate', producing the action or process; meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Vaccination comes from the Latin vacca ('cow') and the word vaccine, because the first vaccine used a mild cow sickness to protect people from a worse disease. So a vaccination is the act of giving a medicine or shot to 'protect' a person or animal from disease.