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neighborhood

neighborhood

41 2.8
An amount close to a given number
  • noun
  • /ˈneɪbərˌhʊd/
  • US
translation icon : alrededor de
  • 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.

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Examples

  • It's a bigger number than we discussed, but it's exactly the neighborhood that you wanted.

  • 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.

  • Oh, roughly in the neighborhood of $60.

  • Fully loaded, this model ran in the neighborhood of forty grand.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000.

  • In the neighborhood of $400,000.

  • So that's a sleep deficit of somewhere in the neighborhood of three to four hours per day.

  • When I left Chase to go in the Treasury in 1969, my income was in the neighborhood of $45,000 a year.

  • The average income is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 dollars a day.

Synonyms

ballpark
vsneighborhood
  • Informal
38 4.3

A rough estimate of a cost or amount

focuses on a single close amount rather than a broad range
region
vsneighborhood
4 1.8

An amount that is about a stated number and not exact

is used for a close approximate amount or value

Compounds

A place that makes a neighborhood look bad because it is empty, damaged, or not cared for

An organized day when local people pick up trash and improve their area

8.7

An area that is fashionable and expensive where many young professionals live

How Approximate

ballpark
  • Informal
38 4.3
neighborhood
  • US
41 2.8

Surface Forms

neighborhood singular
neighborhoods plural
neighbourhood singular

Morphology

neighborhood = neighbor (semi-transparent) = neighbor + hood

The phrase 'in the neighborhood of' is an idiomatic/figurative extension of the spatial sense to mean 'approximately', so learners may not derive the precise numerical sense from components.

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.