tract housing
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4.0
- noun
- /trækt ˈhaʊzɪŋ/
- US
:
vivienda en desarrollo
- With the construction of ring roads, suburban industrial parks, shopping centers, university campuses, and the like, the need for properly planned, modestly priced tract housing became evident.
- suburban tract housing
- tract housing development
Examples
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Oh, tract housing, huh?
Fiction book (1994) -
Many families prefer living in tract housing because of the sense of community it offers.
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"ED" Oh, tract housing, huh?
Fiction book (1994) -
This is, of course, if you don't live in tract housing.
Blog text (29) -
They lived in the mill's tract-housing development.
Fiction book (1994) -
The tract housing started to give way to desert and saguaro cactus.
Fiction book (1999) -
The desert tract-housing development he and Marta had bought into wound over and through a dry wash, with newer models appearing every few months.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tract housing, late-model cars.
Fiction book (1996) -
The western districts consisted of middle-class tract housing interspersed with elite communities, often surrounded by lakes and walls that opened onto golf courses.
Academic text (1992) -
Towns like nearby Efrat have grown to resemble outposts of suburbia, replete with tract housing, swimming pools, supermarkets, and shopping centers.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
Buildings where people live, like houses or flats
38
4.1
An area of land made into many house lots that form a planned neighborhood
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3.1
An area with many similar homes built together and run as one community
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3.0
A group of houses or apartments built together as a planned neighborhood
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound directly combines 'tract' (a continuous area of land) with 'housing' (residential accommodation), so its meaning—housing built on a tract/subdivision of land—is predictable from the parts. This noun-noun composition follows common English patterns and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun tract housing comes from the word tract, meaning a large piece of land that developers bought to build many similar houses at once. Because builders put rows of nearly identical homes on one big tract, the phrase now means 'a group of similar houses built together'.