Meaning & use
NBC hazmat suit
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Meaning
nouncountable
A sealed protective outfit with its own breathing equipment, worn to shield a person from nuclear, biological or chemical danger.
Grammar: A normal countable noun: an NBC hazmat suit, two NBC hazmat suits.
Patterns
- wear an NBC hazmat suit
- an NBC hazmat suit for something
Responders in NBC hazmat suits entered the contaminated lab.
The army trains soldiers to put on an NBC hazmat suit in under a minute.
An NBC hazmat suit is heavy and hot, so workers rotate often.
Word forms
| plural | NBC hazmat suits |
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Common combinations
- wear an NBC hazmat suit
- Inspectors wear an NBC hazmat suit inside the plant.
- don an NBC hazmat suit
- He donned an NBC hazmat suit before entering.
- full NBC hazmat suit
- A full NBC hazmat suit covers the entire body.
- NBC hazmat suit training
- NBC hazmat suit training is part of the course.
Synonyms and how they differ
- hazmat suit
- A hazmat suit is the general term for any suit used against dangerous materials.
- CBRN suit
- CBRN suit is the newer military acronym that adds radiological threats to the same idea.
- protective suit
- Protective suit is the broadest, covering any safety outfit.
Word family
- hazmat noun
- short for hazardous materials
- hazard noun
- a source of danger
- hazardous adjective
- dangerous
- decontaminate verb
- to remove harmful substances
Commonly confused: NBC hazmat suit or NBA?
NBC hazmat suit vs NBA
NBA is a basketball association and has nothing to do with NBC or protective suits.
Practice
What does the NBC in NBC hazmat suit stand for?
Choose one answer.
NBC means nuclear, biological and chemical threats. The other options are a TV network or invented expansions.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “NBC hazmat suit”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.