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Nuisance vs. Pest — What's the Difference?

Nuisance vs. Pest — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Nuisance and Pest

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Nuisance

Nuisance (from archaic nocence, through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat.

Pest

An annoying person or thing; a nuisance.

Nuisance

A person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance
I hope you're not going to make a nuisance of yourself
It's a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house

Pest

An organism, typically an insect, that sickens or annoys humans, hampers human activities, damages crops or food products, harms livestock, or causes damage to buildings.

Nuisance

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother
Having to stand in line was a nuisance. The disruptive child was a nuisance to the class.
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Pest

A deadly epidemic disease; a pestilence.

Nuisance

(Law) A use of property or course of conduct that interferes with the legal rights of others by causing damage, annoyance, or inconvenience.

Pest

A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.

Nuisance

A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.

Pest

Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.

Nuisance

A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.

Pest

An annoying person, a nuisance.

Nuisance

(legal) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
A public nuisance

Pest

An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.

Nuisance

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

Pest

An invasive weed.

Nuisance

(law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive

Pest

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest.

Nuisance

A bothersome annoying person;
That kid is a terrible pain

Pest

Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.

Pest

A persistently annoying person

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