adulteration
pronunciation
How to pronounce adulteration in British English:
UK [əˌdʌltə'reɪʃn]
How to pronounce adulteration in American English:
US [əˌdʌltə'reɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adultering
- the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)
Word Origin
- adulteration (n.)
- c. 1500, from Latin adulterationem (nominative adulteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of adulterare "corrupt, falsify; debauch; commit adultery," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + alterare "to alter" (see alter).
Example
- 1. Just how widespread was the adulteration of food and drink ?
- 2. Dr. harvey w. wiley becomes chief chemist , expanding the bureau of chemistry 's food adulteration studies .
- 3. Dr. wiley 's studies draw widespread attention to the problem of food adulteration .
- 4. He made the study of food adulteration his bureau 's principal business , at first merely outraged by what he deemed essentially harmless fraud .
- 5. Adding water to milk is probably the most common instance of this although adulteration was far more widely practiced in terms of the range of foods available to victorians .