Usually means: Annoying or bothersome person or thing.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word nuisance:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuisance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nuisance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nuisance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nuisance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nuisance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nuisance, nuisance: Wordnik
  7. nuisance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nuisance: Wiktionary
  9. nuisance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nuisance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nuisance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nuisance: Dictionary.com
  13. nuisance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nuisance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nuisance (album), Nuisance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nuisance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nuisance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nuisance: Rhymezone
  19. nuisance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nuisance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nuisance: Free Dictionary
  22. nuisance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nuisance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. nuisance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuisance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. nuisance: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. nuisance: Legal dictionary
  10. nuisance: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuisance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuisance: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nuisance: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nuisances as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
noun:  A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
noun:  (law) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

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