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notifiable adjective

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Definition

describes a disease or offence that must be reported to public health or legal organisations
If the animals have died from a notifiable disease, their bodies must be burnt.

(Definition of notifiable adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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