disinfestation officer

1. 1.

   a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin

   Synonymsrat-catcher

   Broaderworkman

Questions about disinfestation officer

What does disinfestation officer mean?

disinfestation officer means "a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin".

What is another word for disinfestation officer?

Close synonyms include rat-catcher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disinfestation officer a common word?

disinfestation officer 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.