English Explanatory Dictionary

contact trace

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To identify everyone with whom a person carrying an infectious disease has come into contact since contracting the disease.

Word forms

contact trace contact traces contact tracing contact traced contact-trace

Etymology

Back-formation from contact tracing.

Related words

contact tracer contact tracing
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