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Definition of communicable adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

communicable

adjective
 
/kəˈmjuːnɪkəbl/
 
/kəˈmjuːnɪkəbl/
(formal)
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  1. that somebody can pass on to other people or communicate to somebody else
    • communicable diseases
    • The value of the product must be communicable to the potential consumers.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCommunicable is used with these nouns:
    • disease
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘communicating, having communication’): from Old French, from late Latin communicabilis, from the verb communicare ‘to share’, from communis ‘common’.
See communicable in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee communicable in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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