ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attractive nuisance mean? 

• ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE (noun)
  The noun ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE has 1 sense:

1. anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm

  Familiarity information: ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in

Hypernyms ("attractive nuisance" is a kind of...):

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