sanitation

/ˈsænəˌteɪʃən/

/sænɪˈteɪʃən/

Sanitation has to do with making things clean, especially by sterilizing.

Have you ever used hand sanitizer to make sure your hands are germ-free? Then you should have an idea what sanitation is: making something clean (sanitary). Sanitation workers pick up your garbage, keeping your neighborhood clean. Sanitation is important in restaurants and also for surgical instruments. You wouldn't want a surgeon to touch you with an instrument that hadn't gone through sanitation, because it would probably have germs.

Definitions of sanitation

1. noun

   the state of being clean and conducive to health
   type of:

   sanitariness

   the state of being conducive to health
2. noun

   making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing
   synonyms: sanitisation, sanitization

   type of:

   cleaning, cleansing, cleanup

   the act of making something clean