dilapidation

English

Alternative forms

• delapidation (dated)

Etymology

From dilapidate.

Pronunciation

• Syllables: di·lap·i·da·tion
• AHD: də·lăp·ə·dāʹshən
• IPA^(key): /dəˌlæp.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

dilapidation (countable and uncountable, plural dilapidations)

1. The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
2. (law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
3. (British, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
4. (in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.

Related terms

• dilapidate
• dilapidated
• dilapidator

Translations

the state of being dilapidated

• Bulgarian: разнебитено състояние (raznebiteno sǎstojanie)
• Dutch: bouwvalligheid, verkrotting, verloedering (nl), verval (nl) n
• Georgian: რღვევა (rɣveva)
• German: Verfall (de) m, Baufälligkeit (de) f
• Greek: φθορά (el) f (fthorá)
• Hungarian: rongálás (hu)
• Mongolian: үгүйрэл (mn) (ügüjrel)

(law) damaging a building or structure

• Dutch: verloedering (nl), verwaarlozing (nl), verstoring (nl), verval (nl) n
• German: Verwahrlosung (de) f, Zerstörung (de) f

(UK, law) ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property

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• French: ^{(please verify)} délabrement (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} dilapidation (fr), ^{(please verify)} détournement (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} dissipation (fr)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} dilapidazione
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 荒廃 (ja) (こうはい, kōhai)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 황폐 (ko) (hwangpye)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} dilapidatio
• Mandarin:

  Simplified: ^{(please verify)} 破坏 (zh) (popi)

  Traditional: ^{(please verify)} 破壞／破坏 (zh) (popi)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} dilapidación (es)

See also

• dilapidation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.la.pi.da.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

dilapidation f (plural dilapidations)

1. waste
2. an embezzlement for one's own profit

Related terms

• dilapidateur m (noun)
• dilapider (verb)

Further reading

• “dilapidation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.