housing development
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈhaʊzɪŋ dɪˈvɛləpmənt/
:
conjunto residencial
- Many families are moving into the housing development because of its beautiful parks and schools.
- an affordable housing development
- a new housing development
- a public housing development
Examples
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The central government's housing development policy is dictated by its attempts to balance economic development and economic bubbles.
Academic text (2014) -
Ideally, there should also be stronger local involvement in affordable housing development because it is in towns' best interests.
Academic text (2001) -
Our street was going to be the heart of a major housing development.
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"Pretty soon little housing developments started to spring up outside of town, getting closer to us."
Fiction book (1993) -
Most of these areas are now occupied by industrial buildings and housing developments.
Academic text (1997) -
You know, I thought I might show Miranda that new housing development out by me.
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The Board did not address the merits of the proposed housing development.
Academic text (2001) -
There's a housing development 45 minutes outside town.
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A new housing development near Denver, Colorado, shows the nation's first model homes with built-in fallout shelters.
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Others fall victim to housing developments, which consume large swaths of pastureland in the temperate south.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
218
3.4
An area with new buildings for homes or shops
38
4.1
An area of land made into many house lots that form a planned neighborhood
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2.1
Part of a town where people live in houses or apartments
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4.2
An area planned and built with homes, shops, and parks for people to live in
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4.0
A group of similar houses built together as a new neighborhood
1
3.1
An area of a town or city with mostly houses and apartments
1
3.0
A group of houses or apartments built together as a planned neighborhood
Antonyms
1
8.4
A building or place that becomes run-down and damaged because people do not care for it
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably built from 'housing' (accommodation/buildings) + 'development' (a group of buildings or a built project), so a learner can infer 'an area of homes built together.' This noun-noun compound follows a common English and cross-linguistic pattern, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Housing development The compound noun housing development comes from builders who 'develop' land to make housing. Picture a field turned into rows of similar houses, streets and a park by one company; this kind of development is why the phrase means an area of homes built together and run as one community.