climate change
noun [U]Definition
› ENVIRONMENT changes in the world's weather, particularly an increase in temperature, thought to be caused by things such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: Technological methods to cope with climate change will become more and more important.
(Definition of climate change noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Our dictionaries
Browse the Thesaurus
Browse the Dictionary
Word of the Day
be under a cloud
to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
