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tolerance  (tolerances plural )
1  n-uncount Tolerance is the quality of allowing other people to say and do as they like, even if you do not agree or approve of it., (approval, Antonym: intolerance)  ...his tolerance and understanding of diverse human nature.  
2  n-uncount Tolerance is the ability to bear something painful or unpleasant. 
There is lowered pain tolerance, lowered resistance to infection.  
3  n-var If someone or something has a tolerance to a substance, they are exposed to it so often that it does not have very much effect on them. 
As with any drug taken in excess, your body can build up a tolerance to it.  


zero tolerance  
If a government or organization has a policy of zero tolerance of a particular type of behaviour or activity, they will not tolerate it at all.  n-uncount 
They have a policy of zero tolerance for sexual harassment.