neighborhood
- noun
- /ˈneɪbərˌhʊd/
- US
- You talking something in the neighborhood of three to five.
- neighborhood of $15
Inside this box is a server with somewhere in the neighborhood of three to six terabytes of memory.
- Inside this box is a server with somewhere in the neighborhood of three to six terabytes of memory.
- You're in the neighborhood of who Lex Friedman is.
Examples
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It's a bigger number than we discussed, but it's exactly the neighborhood that you wanted.
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What we're talking about here is somewhere in the neighborhood of a 6.5% increase in revenue.
Blog text (9) -
The market value is the average of the sales in the neighborhood of a similar square footage.
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Oh, roughly in the neighborhood of $60.
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Fully loaded, this model ran in the neighborhood of forty grand.
Fiction book (1996) -
Somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000.
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In the neighborhood of $400,000.
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So that's a sleep deficit of somewhere in the neighborhood of three to four hours per day.
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When I left Chase to go in the Treasury in 1969, my income was in the neighborhood of $45,000 a year.
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The average income is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 dollars a day.
Synonyms
Compounds
A place that makes a neighborhood look bad because it is empty, damaged, or not cared for
- Archaic
An area that is fashionable and expensive where many young professionals live
How Approximate
- Informal
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Neighborhood used in the phrase in the neighborhood of comes from the same idea as neighbor, which means 'near', so it tells you a number is 'close to' a value rather than exact.