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Meanings of slum area in anglès

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A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions.

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Examples for "slum"
Examples for "slum"
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The poet knew it; the children knew it; the slum knew it.
The Making of an American
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Reuters has been exploring slum-like conditions in housing at U.S. military bases.
Reuters
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The heat and smell in the narrow slum were worse than usual.
Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
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If you want to slum, you should find a less dangerous place.
Darkness unleashed
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Nauru seems more like a slum solution than anything else', she said.
The Guardian
Usage of slum area in anglès
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This grimy part of town wasn't always a slum area, however.
Ghosts
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The poorest live in a slum area in the City of the Dead.
Reuters
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Could he be worrying, Doyle wondered, about the return trip through that slum area?
The Anubis Gates
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The landslide, triggered by heavy rain, occurred at the city's Motijahrna hillside slum area.
Reuters
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He visited a slum area adjacent to a bright commercial district, where gun battles raged.
Another life
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Yes, the jump had worked, and then the city, and that slum area, and yes, Coleridge!
The Anubis Gates
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Stool samples were collected from healthy individuals without TB symptoms from a slum area of Dhaka.
Pubmed
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Children play at a coal dump in a slum area of Karachi October 3, 2009.
Reuters
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We have not benefited from the massive mad rises in house prices in the erstwhile slum area where we live.
The Guardian
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But police had kept the demonstrations far from the stadium in a slum area dangerous to walk in with photo gear.
Reuters
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The new assignment was to the roughest section in all Marsport-theslum area beyond the dome, out near the rocket field.
Police Your Planet
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We're meeting in the kitchen of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa headquarters, adjacent to the Kariobangi slum area of Nairobi.
The Irish Times
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He was a poor boy who lived in a slum area of the gold-mining Transvaal town where Denise's father was town clerk.
The new yorker
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Sri Rosyati teaches at the Kartini Emergency school at a slum area in north Jakarta February 26, 2009.
Reuters
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A SpiceJet passenger aircraft taxis on the runway at the airport next to a slum area in Mumbai December 19, 2014.
Reuters
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Children take a bath to cool off from the summer heat at a slum area in Tondo, Metro Manila, March 21, 2009.
Reuters
Translations for slum area
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