ventilation shaft

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   a shaft in a building; serves as an air passage for ventilation

   Broadershaftair passage

   Part ofventilation

Questions about ventilation shaft

What does ventilation shaft mean?

ventilation shaft means "a shaft in a building; serves as an air passage for ventilation".

Is ventilation shaft a common word?

ventilation shaft 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.