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We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
Jim McDermott

Meaning of "Agent Orange" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AGENT ORANGE

Named after the identifying colour stripe on its container.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AGENT ORANGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGENT ORANGE

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Agent Orange is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGENT ORANGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Agent Orange

Agent Orange

Agent Orange or Herbicide Orange is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the British military during the Malayan Emergency and the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It was a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. During the early 1950s, the British were the first to employ herbicides and defoliants to destroy the crops, bushes, and trees of communist insurgents in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. In early 1951, the Malayan administration bought over 15,000 gallons of Trioxone from Imperial Chemical Industries and asked the British for advice on the use of defoliants in its increasingly bitter war against communist guerrillas. The 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D were primarily manufactured by ICI and its product was widely used by the British military against communist insurgents throughout the Malayan conflict in the 1950s. ICI provided technical assistance to the British military in that conflict and encouraged them to use Agent Orange widely as they thought it would help destroy communist insurgents.

Definition of Agent Orange in the English dictionary

The definition of Agent Orange in the dictionary is a highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation and crop destruction, esp by US forces during the Vietnam War.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGENT ORANGE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE AGENT ORANGE

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Synonyms and antonyms of Agent Orange in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Agent Orange» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AGENT ORANGE

Find out the translation of Agent Orange to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Agent Orange from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Agent Orange» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

橙剂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Agente Naranja
570 millions of speakers

English

Agent Orange
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एजेंट ऑरेंज
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العامل البرتقالي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Agent Orange
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Agent Orange
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এজেন্ট অরেঞ্জ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Agent Orange
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Agen Jingga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Agent Orange
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エージェント·オレンジ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에이전트 오렌지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agen Oranye
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chất độc da cam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முகவர் ஆரஞ்சு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एजंट ऑरेंज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ajan Orange
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agent Orange
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Agent Orange
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Agent Orange
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agent Orange
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Agent Orange
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

agent Orange
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Agent Orange
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Agent Orange
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Trends of use of Agent Orange

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGENT ORANGE»

The term «Agent Orange» is regularly used and occupies the 64.097 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AGENT ORANGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Agent Orange

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3 QUOTES WITH «AGENT ORANGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Agent Orange.
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Hamilton Jordan
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Jim McDermott
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
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Christopher Shays
Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGENT ORANGE»

Discover the use of Agent Orange in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Agent Orange and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Agent Orange: "collateral damage" in Viet Nam
Never has its effects on humans been so clearly shown as in this book by Philip Jones Griffiths, one of the great photographers of the war, who feels we should see what Agent Orange has done.
Philip Jones Griffiths, 2003
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Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts
This is a book for all Americans interested in their environment, their legal system, their history, and their future.
Peter H. Schuck, 1987
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Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange
Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen.
Fred A. Wilcox, 2011
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The History, Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of ...
This book was commissioned by The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) with the intent of providing documentation of the knowledge on the history, use, disposition and environmental fate of Agent ...
Alvin Lee Young, 2009
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The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the ...
" David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military.
David Zierler, 2011
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Vietnam Veterans Since the War: The Politics of PTSD, Agent ...
In his balanced and highly readable account, Vietnam Veterans since the War, sociologist Wilbur J. Scott tells the story of how the veterans and their allies organized to articulate their concerns and to win concessions from a reluctant ...
Wilbur J. Scott, 1993
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Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called 'the last ghost of the Vietnam War,' this book examines the far-reaching impact of Agent Orange, the most infamous of the dioxin-contaminated herbicides used by American forces in Southeast ...
Edwin A. Martini, 2012
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Agent Orange: Limited Information Is Available on the Number ...
Civilian employees of the U.S. gov't. may have difficulty in obtaining workers' compensation benefits for medical conditions they developed as a result of their exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Robert E. Robertson (au), 2005
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Veterans and Agent Orange:: Update 2012
She has been involved with the IOM committees that produced Organ Procurement and Transplantation; Clearing theAir: Asthmaand Indoor Air Exposures; Veteransand Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes; ...
Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update), Board on the Health of Select Populations, Institute of Medicine, 2014
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Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by ...
This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war.
Charles Waugh, Huy Lien, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGENT ORANGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Agent Orange is used in the context of the following news items.
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Photographs of today's Vietnam show how US pop culture has crept …
US use 21million gallons of the herbicide Agent Orange to clear forests still affects those in the country today, according to Featureshoot. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Agent Orange victims: '50 years later, we're still battling'
But that wasn't the only place where troops in the Vietnam War were exposed to Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant the U.S. military used to kill ... «Gainesville Times, Jul 15»
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Condition caused by Agent Orange tests former Hutch barber …
Jerry Josephson, a Vietnam War veteran, cuts the hair of his friend Mike Ruzich at his home on Wednesday. Josephson underwent 23 ... «Hutchinson News, Jul 15»
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What Agent Orange Tells Us About Anti-Vaxxers
Agent Orange is a slightly different story. In the 1960s the U.S. military developed the herbicide for the Vietnam War. Between 1962 and 1971, ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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VFW salutes new Agent Orange decision
WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United is saluting the recent decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin ... «Hometown Focus, Jul 15»
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LETTERS: On immigration detention centers and helping veterans …
LETTERS: On immigration detention centers and helping veterans exposed to Agent Orange. Story. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font ... «Monitor, Jul 15»
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US Urged to Ramp up Aid for Agent Orange Clean-Up Efforts in …
An estimated 4.5 million Vietnamese people were potentially exposed to Agent Orange during the decade 1961-1972. Credit: ... «Inter Press Service, Jun 15»
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Veterans Affairs publishes new Agent Orange regulation
That makes it easier for the service members to establish entitlement for some benefits if they develop an Agent Orange-related presumptive ... «Salisbury Post, Jun 15»
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Overdue Agent Orange action
So, the U.S. government has finally decided to help some 2,000 Air Force personnel exposed to Agent Orange residue left over in airplanes ... «Evening Observer, Jun 15»
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Diane Dimond: VA's Response to Agent Orange Is to Deny, Deny …
So, the U.S. government has finally decided to help some 2,000 Air Force personnel exposed to Agent Orange residue left over in airplanes ... «Noozhawk, Jun 15»

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