slum area
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2.7
- noun
- /slʌm ˈɛəriə/
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barriada
- The demand for space is so acute that illegal building, especially in slum areas, is almost beyond control.
We so don't think about what it would feel like in an isolated or very congested slum area.
- We so don't think about what it would feel like in an isolated or very congested slum area.
- So kids in a, in a, in a slum area, a poor area can actually see there is another way of life.
- She is an old lady with one leg who they live all lived in the Keys, which was a slum area.
Examples
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Many families struggle to find adequate housing in the slum area due to high unemployment and low wages.
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While child mortality is similar between rural and urban locations overall, 67 comparisons between slum areas specifically and the countryside tell a different story.
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So kids in a, in a, in a slum area, a poor area can actually see there is another way of life.
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According to research conducted in Ankara in 1995, almost all women living in slum areas had experienced domestic violence.
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One of the most alarming trends is the rapid growth of the slum areas.
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However, in Nairobi, the situation of children in the slum areas relative to rural poor children seems to have worsened over time.
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And third, social and health improvement interventions that work in non-slum localities might not be transferable to slum areas.
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It is noteworthy that mortality rates are decreasing in both countries in both rural and slum areas.
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DHAKA -- Fire service officials said 11 people were killed when a fire engulfed a slum area in the Bangladeshi capital during the wee hours of Sunday.
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In Mathare, the water companies' technicians don't even bother to go to the slum area; this means that they don't maintain and operate public water points as there are few opportunities to get "kitu kidogo" (something small) from people living on one US dollar a day.
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Synonyms
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5.6
A poor crowded part of a city where a minority group lives
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3.0
A poor part of a city with crowded, run-down houses and few services
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7.0
An area of a city where very poor people live in small rough houses
An area in a city with many small, crowded apartments where people live in poor conditions
Antonyms
How Poor
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'slum' (a poor, crowded part of a city) + 'area' (a region or part of a place), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer 'slum area' as a part of a city with poor living conditions. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common noun-noun composition and therefore fully transparent.
Etymology
Slum area may come from the old use of slum for a dark, crowded street or row of very cheap rooms, with area meaning place. One popular story says people used 'slum area' to point to the hidden, packed parts of a town where poor families lived, so today slum area means 'a poor, crowded part of a city'.