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dilapidations

dilapidations is the plural of dilapidation.

Meaning of dilapidation

Noun

dilapidation (countable and uncountable, plural dilapidations)

  1. The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
  2. The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
  3. (UK) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
  4. (in plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.

Questions about dilapidations

What is dilapidations the plural of?
Dilapidations is the plural of dilapidation.

Words near dilapidations in the dictionary

  1. dilapidatedly
  2. dilapidatedness
  3. dilapidates
  4. dilapidating
  5. dilapidation
  6. dilapidations
  7. dilapidator
  8. dilapidators
  9. dilarid
  10. dilarids
  11. dilatabilities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dilapidations (page history and authors); dilapidation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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