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housing estate

noun

British.


housing estate

noun

  1. a planned area of housing, often with its own shops and other amenities
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of housing estate1

First recorded in 1915–20
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They are names that bring illness and disease to mind - but a new Glasgow housing estate is to have its streets named after vaccines, radiography and viruses.

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It is part of a housing estate of identical monumental blocks built during the Soviet era.

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They include the superb Bird, about a young girl growing up on a tough housing estate, and Mike Leigh's terrific Hard Truths, about a woman whose depression puts severe strain on those around her.

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Among the sites to have been sold is Maltby Miners Welfare Institute, which sits in the midst of a housing estate in South Yorkshire.

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The firms had already seen trade drop by about 40%, because of the ongoing disruption caused by the housing estate's construction.

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