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housing estate Definition

housing estate

noun

Brit. a housing development

housing estate Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • build: We built soulless housing estates, miles from the jobs and services they depend on.
  • serve: This was the largest of the new generation of schools, erected to serve a new housing estate of over 4,000 houses.
  • visit: First she went to Ayr where in 2003 Beechgrove visited a housing estate that desperately needed a garden to crown their community achievements.
  • include: The site is being redeveloped to include a new housing estate.
  • develop: The resulting communities are likely to be more robust, inclusive and vibrant than housing estates developed in isolation.

Adjective modifier

  • peripheral: Social decay in Scotland tends instead to be concentrated in the white, mono-cultural, predominantly working-class ghettos of the peripheral housing estates.
  • large: Large modern housing estates adjacent to the school contrast with the farm land opposite the site.
  • modern: Large modern housing estates adjacent to the school contrast with the farm land opposite the site.
  • new: The site is being redeveloped to include a new housing estate.
  • soulless: We built soulless housing estates, miles from the jobs and services they depend on.
  • municipal: In the 1920s and 30s municipal housing estates were built off Kingsway, and at Fairfield, Halebank and Stewards Avenue.

Modifies a noun

  • officer: We also survey trees for schools and housing estate officers on request.
  • close: Rental DVD can work but only if you've got a large housing estate close by and a lot of local trade.

Noun used with modifier

  • council: It's still a striking development for a council housing estate - tho the Corporation of London isn't exactly a normal council.

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