contact trace
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To identify everyone with whom a person carrying an infectious disease has come into contact since contracting the disease.
Example Sentences
- "“We’ve had over 15 million check-ins across the country since June, and have yet to have a COVID breakout or case that is contact-traced back to our club,” Sanft said."
- "Sarah is 49 and lives in Dublin in a household of five. “A household member had been contact traced via text,” she says. “I fell ill on the night of the December 28th. I had a night of fever; of being hot and cold, feeling very achey and fluey. I had been fine during the day, but during the night, the symptoms came on relatively quickly.”"