Betekenis van:
disaster area

disaster area
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • door een ramp getroffen gebied
  • a region whose population is affected by a general disaster

Hyperoniemen

disaster area
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • noodgebied
  • a region whose population is affected by a general disaster

Hyperoniemen


Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. Relief supplies were raced to the disaster area.
  2. There were three hundred cardboard boxes filled with old clothes ready to be sent to the disaster area.
  3. Security of infrastructures and utilities: Activities will concentrate on targets of an incident or disaster of transnational importance, examples for infrastructures include large-scale event sites, significant sites of political (e.g. parliament buildings) or symbolic (e.g. particular monuments) value and utilities being those for energy (including oil, electricity, gas), water, transport (including air, sea, land), communication (including broadcasting), financial, administrative, public health, etc. A series of capabilities are required to cope with this mission area, many of which primarily relate to the phases ‘protect’ but also ‘prepare’.