Usually means: Population immunity through widespread vaccination.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. herd immunity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. herd immunity: Wiktionary
  3. herd immunity: Dictionary.com
  4. Herd immunity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. herd immunity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. herd immunity: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herd immunity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Immunity, herd, herd immunity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. herd immunity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Immunity, herd, herd immunity: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (herd immunity)

noun:  (epidemiology) The indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.

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