environment

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    the totality of surrounding conditions
    the area in which something exists or lives

Word Origin

environment (n.)
c. 1600, "state of being environed" (see environ + -ment); sense of "the aggregate of the conditions in which a person or thing lives" first recorded 1827 (used by Carlyle to render German Umgebung); specialized ecology sense first recorded 1956.

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Example

1. Are trade and environment in conflict ?
2. Another possible reason is that people 's immediate environment has improved .
3. And then it becomes the non-human animals and the environment .
4. Unsustainable development means that we have not done well in saving energy and resources and protecting the environment .
5. The economic environment remains deflationary .

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