hostile environment
An immigration policy in which service providers such as doctors, landlords and banks…An immigration policy in which service providers such as doctors, landlords and banks must perform ID checks to verify that potential clients have legal right to remain.
» It's a hostile environment.
Это враждебная среда.
Meaning
2 senses(UK, uncountable)An immigration policy in which service providers such as doctors, landlords and banks must perform ID checks to verify that potential clients have legal right to remain.
(uncountable)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hostile, environment.
Examples
16 sentencesIt's a hostile environment.
ruЭто враждебная среда.
They deliberately created a hostile environment.
Are you in a hostile working environment?
I couldn't survive in such a hostile environment.
Layla was at the mercy of a hostile environment.
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable