communicable disease

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   a disease that can be communicated from one person to another

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Questions about communicable disease

What does communicable disease mean?

communicable disease means "a disease that can be communicated from one person to another".

Is communicable disease a common word?

communicable disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.