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vaccination

vaccination

76 3.0
Giving a vaccine to a person or animal to protect them from disease
  • noun
  • /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
translation icon : 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
29 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
15 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
vaccinating
vsvaccination
1 3.7

Giving a vaccine to protect people from disease

names the act itself rather than expressing it as an action
inoculating
vsvaccination
  • Specialized
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

Compounds

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

ring vaccination
  • Specialized
3.7

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

How Preventive

preventive medicine
  • Specialized
4 3.9
vaccination
76 3.0
prophylaxis
  • Specialized
4 8.2
hygiene
84 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.