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nuisance

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nuisance/ˈnjuːsns/

▶noun a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.

■ Law an act which is harmful or offensive to the public or a member of it and for which there is a legal remedy.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘injury’): from OFr., ‘hurt’, based on L. nocere ‘to harm’.

'nuisance' also found in these Oxford entries:

abate - confounded - disembarrass - infernal - private nuisance - public nuisance

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