Public toilet, the Glossary
A public toilet, restroom, public bathroom or washroom is a room or small building with toilets (or urinals) and sinks for use by the general public.[1]
Table of Contents
223 relations: Abbey Road, Accessible toilet, Acronym, Aesthetics, Africa, African Americans, Air freshener, Aircraft lavatory, American English, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Amnesty International, Anal hygiene, Anatomical terminology, Apartheid, Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, Bangalore, Bathroom, Bathroom bill, Beijing, Beijing Capital International Airport, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Biomedical waste, Bloomberg News, Botswana, Brazil, Broadway theatre, Brown v. Board of Education, Buffalo, New York, Building code, Canadian English, Caregiver, Caucasus, Central Asia, Changing room, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil rights movement, Civility, Closeted, Columbia University Press, Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, Composting toilet, Council of Europe, Courtland Milloy, Crime prevention through environmental design, Defecation, Der Spiegel, Developing country, Diaper, Drinking water, Dropping out, ... Expand index (173 more) »
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Abbey Road
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records.
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Accessible toilet
Accessible toilets are toilets that have been specially designed to better accommodate people with physical disabilities. Public toilet and Accessible toilet are public toilets.
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Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Air freshener
Air fresheners are products designed to reduce unwanted odors in indoor spaces, or to introduce pleasant fragrances, or both.
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Aircraft lavatory
An aircraft lavatory or plane toilet is a small unisex room on an aircraft with a toilet and sink. Public toilet and aircraft lavatory are public toilets.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Anal hygiene
Anal hygiene or anal cleansing refers to the practices that are performed on a person's anus to maintain hygiene, usually in the aftermath of defecation.
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Anatomical terminology
Anatomical terminology is a form of scientific terminology used by anatomists, zoologists, and health professionals such as doctors, physicians, and pharmacists.
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Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
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Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 ("ABA",, codified at et seq.) is an Act of Congress, enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
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Bathroom
A bathroom is a room in which people wash their bodies or parts of their bodies. Public toilet and bathroom are rooms.
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Bathroom bill
A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing Capital International Airport is one of two international airports serving Beijing, the capital of China (the other one being Beijing Daxing International Airport).
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.
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Biomedical waste
Biomedical waste or hospital waste is any kind of waste containing infectious (or potentially infectious) materials generated during the treatment of humans or animals as well as during research involving biologics.
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Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.
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Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.
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Building code
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.
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Caregiver
A caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living.
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Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Changing room
A changing room, locker room (usually in a sports, theater, or staff context), or changeroom (regional use) is a room or area designated for changing one's clothes. Public toilet and changing room are rooms.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Civility
Civility may denote orderly behavior and politeness.
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Closeted
Closeted and in the closet are metaphors for LGBT people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Committee to End Pay Toilets in America
The Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, or CEPTIA, was a 1970s grass-roots political organization which was one of the main forces behind the elimination of pay toilets in many American cities and states.
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Composting toilet
A composting toilet is a type of dry toilet that treats human waste by a biological process called composting. Public toilet and composting toilet are sanitation.
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Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
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Courtland Milloy
Courtland Milloy is an American columnist and former reporter for The Washington Post.
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Crime prevention through environmental design
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is an agenda for manipulating the built environment to create safer neighborhoods.
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Defecation
Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca.
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Der Spiegel
(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Diaper
A diaper (NAmE) or a nappy (BrE, AuE, IrE) is a type of underwear that allows the wearer to urinate or defecate without using a toilet, by absorbing or containing waste products to prevent soiling of outer clothing or the external environment.
Drinking water
Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation. Public toilet and Drinking water are sanitation.
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Dropping out
Dropping out refers to leaving high school, college, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, inability, apathy, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Equality and Human Rights Commission
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is a non-departmental public body in Great Britain, established by the Equality Act 2006 with effect from 1 October 2007.
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Erwin Olaf
Erwin Olaf Springveld (2 July 1959 – 20 September 2023), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, was a Dutch photographer from Hilversum.
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Etiquette
Etiquette is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group.
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Euphemism
A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.
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European Convention on Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe.
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European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 8802 was an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941.
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Fair Employment Practice Committee
The Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) was created in 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work.", Our Documents, Executive Order 8802 dated June 25, 1941, General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives That was shortly before the United States entered World War II.
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Fecal incontinence
Fecal incontinence (FI), or in some forms, encopresis, is a lack of control over defecation, leading to involuntary loss of bowel contents, both liquid stool elements and mucus, or solid feces.
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Female urinal
A female urinal is a urinal designed for the female anatomy to allow for ease of use by women and girls. Public toilet and female urinal are sanitation and Women's health.
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Feminine hygiene
Feminine hygiene products are personal care products used during menstruation, vaginal discharge, and other bodily functions related to the vulva and vagina.
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Flush toilet
A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (principally urine and feces) by using the force of water to channel it through a drainpipe to another location for treatment, either nearby or at a communal facility.
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Flushing trough
A flushing trough is a long cistern which serves several toilet pans.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
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Gay bar
A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBTQ+ communities.
Gay liberation
The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.
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Gender neutrality
Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender.
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George Jennings
George Jennings (10 November 1810 – 17 April 1882) was an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public flush toilets.
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Giovanni della Casa
Giovanni della Casa (28 June 1503 – 14 November 1556) was an Italian poet, diplomat, clergyman and inquisitor, and writer on etiquette and society.
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Glass brick
Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass.
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Graffiti
Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.
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Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.
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Groningen
Groningen (Grunn or Grunnen) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands.
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Hand dryer
A hand dryer is an electric machine which might make use of a heating element and an air blower to dry the hands after hand washing. Public toilet and hand dryer are public toilets.
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Hand washing
Hand washing (or handwashing), also known as hand hygiene, is the act of cleaning one's hands with soap or handwash and water to remove viruses/bacteria/microorganisms, dirt, grease, and other harmful or unwanted substances stuck to the hands. Public toilet and hand washing are sanitation.
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Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.
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Hokkaido
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Human right to water and sanitation
The human right to water and sanitation (HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life. Public toilet and human right to water and sanitation are sanitation.
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Hundertwasser Toilets
The Hundertwasser Toilets is a public toilet located at 60 Gillies Street, the main street of the town of Kawakawa in northern New Zealand. Public toilet and Hundertwasser Toilets are public toilets.
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Industrial design
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production.
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Inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine, with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC) being the principal types.
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Islamic toilet etiquette
Islamic toilet etiquette is a set of personal hygiene rules in Islam that concerns going to the toilet. Public toilet and Islamic toilet etiquette are sanitation.
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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
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Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.
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John Nevil Maskelyne
John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 – 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices.
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Kampala
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.
Kawakawa, New Zealand
Kawakawa is a small town in the Bay of Islands area of the Northland Region of New Zealand.
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Kemi Badenoch
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch (née Adegoke, born 2 January 1980) is a British politician who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since 2024 and was Secretary of State for Business and Trade from 2023 to 2024.
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Kullu
Kullu is a municipal council town that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Kullu district of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Ladies Rest Room
The Ladies Rest Room is a historic building in Lewisburg, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Larkin Administration Building
The Larkin Building was an office building in Buffalo, New York, noted for innovations that included central air conditioning, built-in desk furniture, and suspended toilet partitions and bowls.
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Latrinalia
Latrinalia is a type of deliberately inscribed or etched marking made on latrines; that is, bathrooms or lavatory walls.
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Lawrence Stone
Lawrence Stone (4 December 1919 – 16 June 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain, after a start to his career as an art historian of English medieval art.
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Legal drinking age
The legal drinking age is the minimum age at which a person can legally consume alcoholic beverages.
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List of dialects of English
Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar.
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List of human positions
Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take.
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Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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Lobby (room)
A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside. Public toilet and lobby (room) are rooms.
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Local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.
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Loo of the Year Awards
The Loo of the Year Awards are run to celebrate the best public toilets in the United Kingdom, and promote high standards. Public toilet and Loo of the Year Awards are public toilets.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
March Fong Eu
March Fong Eu (March 29, 1922 – December 21, 2017) was an American diplomat and politician who served as the 24th secretary of state of California for five terms from 1975 to 1994.
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Menopause
Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when menstrual periods permanently stop, marking the end of reproduction.
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Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is a series of natural changes in hormone production and the structures of the uterus and ovaries of the female reproductive system that makes pregnancy possible. Public toilet and menstrual cycle are Women's health.
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Menstrual Hygiene Day
Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD, MH Day in short) is an annual awareness day on May 28 to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management (MHM) at a global level. Public toilet and menstrual Hygiene Day are sanitation.
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Menstrual hygiene management
Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) or menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) refers to access to menstrual hygiene products to absorb or collect the flow of blood during menstruation, privacy to change the materials, and access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials. Public toilet and menstrual hygiene management are equality rights, sanitation and Women's health.
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Menstruation
Menstruation (also known as a period, among other colloquial terms) is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.
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Mental Floss
Mental Floss (stylized as mental_floss) is an online magazine and its related American digital, print, and e-commerce media company focused on millennials.
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Moral panic
A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
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National Center for Transgender Equality
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is a nonprofit social equality organization founded in 2003 by transgender activist Mara Keisling in Washington, D.C. The organization works primarily in the areas of policy advocacy and media activism with the aim of advancing the equality of transgender people in the United States.
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National Public Toilet Map
The National Public Toilet Map is part of the Australian government's National Continence Management Strategy (NCMS).
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Nationalization
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Occupational safety and health
Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e., while performing duties required by one's occupation).
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Old School Privy
The Old School Privy is a historic outhouse in the village of Genoa, Ohio, United States.
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Out-of-home advertising
Out-of-home (OOH) advertising, also called outdoor advertising, outdoor media, and out-of-home media, is advertising experienced outside of the home.
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Paper towel
A paper towel is an absorbent, disposable towel made from paper.
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Paper-towel dispenser
A paper-towel dispenser is a wall-mounted device that dispenses paper towels in a public toilet so that hands can be dried after hand washing. Public toilet and paper-towel dispenser are public toilets.
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Parkend
Parkend is a village, located at the foot of the Cannop Valley, in the Royal Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire, England, and has a history dating back to the early 17th century.
Passenger train toilet
Many passenger trains (usually medium and long-distance) have toilet facilities, often at the ends of carriages.
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Pay toilet
A pay toilet is a public toilet that requires the user to pay.
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Pediatric nursing
Pediatric nursing is part of the nursing profession, specifically revolving around the care of neonates and children up to adolescence.
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Philippine English
Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.
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Pictogram
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.
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Pissoir
A pissoir (also known in French as a vespasienne) is a French invention, common in Europe, that provides a urinal in public space with a lightweight structure.
Pit latrine
A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground. Public toilet and pit latrine are sanitation.
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Portable toilet
A portable or mobile toilet (colloquial terms: thunderbox, porta-john, porta-potty or portaloo) is any type of toilet that can be moved around, some by one person, some by mechanical equipment such as a truck and crane.
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Potty parity
Potty parity is equal or equitable provision of public toilet facilities for females and males within a public space.
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Prisoner
A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will.
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Private prison
A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.
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Privately owned public space
Privately owned public space (POPS), or alternatively, privately owned public open spaces (POPOS), are terms used to describe a type of public space that, although privately owned, is legally required to be open to the public under a city's zoning ordinance or other land-use law.
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Privatization
Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.
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Prostate
The prostate is both an accessory gland of the male reproductive system and a muscle-driven mechanical switch between urination and ejaculation.
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Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
Public good (economics)
In economics, a public good (also referred to as a social good or collective good)Oakland, W. H. (1987).
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Public sphere
The public sphere (Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Queensland Art Gallery
The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Racial profiling
Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence.
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Public toilet and racial segregation are social inequality.
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Rantasalmi
Rantasalmi is a municipality of Finland.
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Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
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Residual-current device
A residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB) or ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) is an electrical safety device that interrupts an electrical circuit when the current passing through a conductor is not equal and opposite in both directions, therefore indicating leakage current to ground or current flowing to another powered conductor.
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Restroom Access Act
The Restroom Access Act, also known as Ally's Law, is legislation passed by several U.S. states that requires retail establishments that have toilet facilities for their employees to also allow customers to use the facilities if the customer has a medical condition requiring immediate access to a toilet, such as inflammatory bowel disease or Crohn’s disease.
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Restroom attendant
A bathroom attendant, restroom attendant, toilet attendant, or washroom attendant, is a cleaner for a public toilet. Public toilet and restroom attendant are public toilets.
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Right to education
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education.
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Ritual purity in Islam
Purity (طهارة, ṭahāra(h)) is an essential aspect of Islam.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Royal Society for Public Health
Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is an independent, multi-disciplinary charity concerned with the improvement of the public's health.
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Safe space
The term safe space refers to places "intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations".
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Sammy Younge Jr.
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. (November 17, 1944 – January 3, 1966) was a civil rights and voting rights activist who was murdered for trying to desegregate a "whites only" restroom.
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Sanisette
Sanisette is a registered trademark for a self-contained, self-cleaning, unisex, public toilet pioneered by the French company JCDecaux.
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Sanitary sewer
A sanitary sewer is an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings (but not stormwater) to a sewage treatment plant or disposal.
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Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
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Sanitation in ancient Rome
Sanitation in ancient Rome, acquired from the Etruscans, was very advanced compared to other ancient cities and provided water supply and sanitation services to residents of Rome.
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School
A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.
Sex segregation
Sex segregation, sex separation, sex partition, gender segregation, gender separation, or gender partition is the physical, legal, or cultural separation of people according to their biological sex at any age.
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Sexual Offences Act 2003
The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Sink
A sink is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture for washing hands (also known as washbasin in the UK), dishwashing, and other purposes.
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.
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Soap
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
Soap dispenser
A soap dispenser is a device that, when manipulated or triggered appropriately, dispenses soap (usually in small, single-use quantities).
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
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South Savo
South Savo (or Southern Savonia; Etelä-Savo; Södra Savolax) is a region in the south-east of Finland.
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Spray-and-vac cleaning
Spray-and-vac cleaning is a “no-touch” method – cleaning is accomplished without the need for workers to touch soiled surfaces with their hands – used in professional cleaning in which a pressurized, diluted cleaning solution is applied to soiled or contaminated surfaces.
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Squat toilet
A squat toilet (or squatting toilet) is a toilet used by squatting, rather than sitting.
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Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Street art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility.
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Street furniture
Street furniture is a collective term for objects and pieces of equipment installed along streets and roads for various purposes.
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Susan Stryker
Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961) is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality.
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Swachh Bharat Mission
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages. Public toilet and Swachh Bharat Mission are sanitation.
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Telescopic toilet
A telescopic toilet, retractable toilet, or pop-up toilet, is a type of toilet which is stored underground and then raised (usually hydraulically) above ground when in use.
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Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about east of the state's western border with Illinois.
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The Advocate (magazine)
The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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The Beaver County Times
The Beaver County Times is a daily newspaper published in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States, serving suburban Beaver County northwest of Pittsburgh.
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The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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The Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers.
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The Philippine Star
The Philippine Star (self-styled The Philippine STAR) is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the Philstar Media Group.
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Toilet
A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human urine and feces, and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Public toilet and toilet are sanitation.
Toilet (room)
A toilet is a small room used for privately accessing the sanitation fixture (toilet) for urination and defecation.
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Toilet humour
Toilet humour, potty humour or scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, diarrhea, constipation, urination and flatulence, and to a lesser extent vomiting and other bodily functions.
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Toilet paper
Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, toilet roll, or bathroom tissue) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine (after urination). Public toilet and toilet paper are sanitation.
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Toilet seat
A toilet seat is a hinged unit consisting of a round or oval open seat, and usually a lid, which is bolted onto the bowl of a toilet used in a sitting position (as opposed to a squat toilet).
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Tony Awards
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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Toulouse
Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.
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Transgender rights movement
The transgender rights movement is a movement to promote the legal status of transgender people and to eliminate discrimination and violence against transgender people regarding housing, employment, public accommodations, education, and health care.
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Truck stop
A truck stop, known as a service station in the United Kingdom, and a travel center by major chains in the United States, is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (parking), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.
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Trunk (car)
The trunk (North American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle.
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Turnstile
A turnstile (also called a turnpike, gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time.
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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU; formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute) is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
Uniform Plumbing Code
Designated as an American National Standard, the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) is a model code developed by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) to govern the installation and inspection of plumbing systems as a means of promoting the public's health, safety and welfare.
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Unisex public toilet
Unisex public toilets (also referred to as gender-inclusive, gender-neutral, mixed-sex or all-gender, or without any prefix at all) are public toilets that are not separated by gender or sex. Public toilet and Unisex public toilet are public toilets.
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United Kingdom government austerity programme
The United Kingdom government austerity programme was a fiscal policy that was adopted for a period in the early 21st century following the Great Recession.
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Urinal
A urinal is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only. Public toilet and urinal are public toilets.
Urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence (UI), also known as involuntary urination, is any uncontrolled leakage of urine.
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Urination
Urination is the release of urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
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Urinetown
Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical that premiered in 2001, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis.
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Utility tunnel
A utility tunnel, utility corridor, or utilidor is a passage built underground or above ground to carry utility lines such as electricity, steam, water supply pipes, and sewer pipes.
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Vacuum truck
A vacuum truck, vacuum tanker, vactor truck, vactor, vac-con truck, vac-con is a tank truck that has a pump and a tank. Public toilet and vacuum truck are sanitation.
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Vending machine
A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or otherwise made.
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Vespasian
Vespasian (Vespasianus; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is a historic opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Violence against transgender people
Violence against transgender people includes emotional, physical, sexual, or verbal violence targeted towards transgender people.
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Violent crime
A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Waste container
A waste container, also known as a dustbin, rubbish bin, trash can, and garbage can, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Williams Institute
The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, usually shortened to Williams Institute, is a public policy research institute based at the UCLA School of Law focused on sexual orientation and gender identities issues.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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Workers' right to access the toilet
Workers' right to access the toilet refers to the rights of employees to take a break when they need to use the toilet. Public toilet and Workers' right to access the toilet are public toilets.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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Wudu
Wuduʾ (lit) is the Islamic procedure for cleansing parts of the body, a type of ritual purification, or ablution.
2016 Seocho-dong public-toilet murder case
The Seocho-dong public restroom murder case, commonly known as the Gangnam Station murder case or the Gangnam Station femicide occurred at the public restroom of a karaoke bar in Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea on 17 May 2016.
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See also
Public toilets
- Accessible toilet
- Aircraft lavatory
- Bathroom privileges
- Community toilet scheme
- Dignified Mobile Toilets
- Guilford Place public conveniences
- Hand dryer
- Hundertwasser Toilets
- Kjærlighetskarusellen
- Lobster loos
- Loo of the Year Awards
- Paper-towel dispenser
- Perfect Days
- Phyllis Maud Performance Space
- Porcelain Palace
- Portland Loo
- Public toilet
- Public toilets in Algeria
- Public toilets in Bratislava
- Public toilets in Sudan
- Rest areas
- Restroom attendant
- The Tokyo Toilet
- Toilet Twinning
- Unisex public toilet
- Urinal
- Urinal target
- West Pier Public Convenience
- Whittington's Longhouse
- Workers' right to access the toilet
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_toilet
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