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cooling centre

cooling centre is the alternative spelling of cooling center.

Meaning of cooling center

Noun

cooling center (plural cooling centers)

  1. (US) An artificially cooled emergency shelter that operates during dangerously hot weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the high temperature.
    • [T]he availability of shelter from the heat at a city-sponsored "cooling center" made sense. With temperatures soaring into the 100s it was a move to prevent the situations that led to multiple heat deaths in 1980. […] [T]he cooling center, provided at minimal cost to taxpayers thanks to volunteer...1983 July 26, “‘Cooling center’ useful”, in Ed Corson, editor, The Macon News, number 207, Macon, Ga.: Edmund E. Olson, →OCLC, page 10A, column 3

Forms of cooling centre

pluralcooling centres

Questions about cooling centre

What is cooling centre the alternative spelling of?
Cooling centre is the alternative spelling of cooling center.

Words near cooling centre in the dictionary

  1. cooling
  2. cooling card
  3. cooling cards
  4. cooling center
  5. cooling centers
  6. cooling centre
  7. cooling centres
  8. cooling down
  9. cooling glass
  10. cooling glasses
  11. cooling off

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