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n

An apartment building, especially a dilapidated low-rent building that meets, at best, minimal conditions of sanitation and safety.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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