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Meanings of innercity in English

In the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland: Part of a city at or near the centre, especially a slum area where poor people live in bad housing.

        Usage of innercity in English
        1
        However, its initiative to improve school attendance among children in innercity schools has been achieving results.
        The Irish Times
        2
        As well as providing for the local community, it has strengthened links with innercity Birmingham, over 100 miles away.
        The Guardian
        3
        He paid $500 a week for a one-and-a-half bedroom flat in the innercity Wellington suburb, Mount Victoria.
        Radio NZ
        4
        The slightly built teenager sits on her sister's couch in an innercity Dublin flat and puffs anxiously on a cigarette.
        The Irish Times
        5
        The phone lines are buzzing between eight innercity schools in Dublin as an EU-backed project to improve school life gets off the ground.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Traffic is congested in the InnerCity due to vehicles being diverted.
        The South African
        7
        Freestyle Fellowship's Innercity Griots is the Rosetta Stone for rap styles.
        The Irish Times