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English
Noun
portable toilet (plural portable toilets)
- A movable toilet, particularly a portable outhouse used where other lavatories are unavailable (as at a construction site) or insufficient (as at special events).
2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8:The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work.
Usage notes
A permanently-installed portable toilet (as at a park) may come to be known as an outhouse or similar name instead.
Synonyms
Translations
portable toilet
— see also toilet
- Finnish: bajamaja (fi)
- French: toilette mobile, toilette portable f, toilette autonome f, WC chimique
- German: Baustellenklo n, mobile Toilettenkabine f, Mobil-WC n, Mobilklo n, Dixiklo n, Dixi-Klo n, Dixi® n, Dixi (de) n, Sanitärcontainer m
- Italian: bagno chimico m
- Japanese: 仮設トイレ (かせつトイレ, kasetsu toire), 仮設便所 (かせつべんじょ, kasetsu benjo), 簡易トイレ (かんいといれ, kan'i toire)
- Polish: przenośna toaleta f, toi-toi m (informal)
- Portuguese: banheiro químico m
- Russian: передвижно́й (ru) m (peredvižnój) туале́т (ru) m (tualét), туале́тная (ru) f (tualétnaja) каби́нка (ru) n (kabínka)
- Spanish: baño portal m
- Swedish: bajamaja (sv) c, dass (sv) n, utedass (sv) n
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