Usually means: Decline due to neglect, decay.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word dilapidation:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilapidation: Merriam-Webster
  2. dilapidation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilapidation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dilapidation: Vocabulary.com
  5. dilapidation: Wordnik
  6. dilapidation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dilapidation: Wiktionary
  8. dilapidation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Dilapidation, dilapidation: Dictionary.com
  10. dilapidation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Dilapidation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Dilapidation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dilapidation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. dilapidation: Rhymezone
  15. Dilapidation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. dilapidation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. dilapidation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dilapidation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dilapidation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. dilapidation: Legal dictionary

(Note: See dilapidate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dilapidation)

noun:  The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
noun:  (law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
noun:  (British, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
noun:  (in the plural) Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.

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