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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.

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Examples for "inner city"
Examples for "inner city"
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A nurse at an inner city hospital is among the new cases.
News.com.au
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Housing activists have occupied a second property in Dublin's north inner city.
The Irish Times
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Many of these attacks happened late at night in the inner city.
Radio NZ
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Gardaí now plan to replicate the model across the south inner city.
The Irish Times
5
The shooting took place outside a pub in Dublin's north inner city.
The Irish Times
Usage of innercity in English
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However, its initiative to improve school attendance among children in innercity schools has been achieving results.
The Irish Times
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As well as providing for the local community, it has strengthened links with innercity Birmingham, over 100 miles away.
The Guardian
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He paid $500 a week for a one-and-a-half bedroom flat in the innercity Wellington suburb, Mount Victoria.
Radio NZ
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The slightly built teenager sits on her sister's couch in an innercity Dublin flat and puffs anxiously on a cigarette.
The Irish Times
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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
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Traffic is congested in the InnerCity due to vehicles being diverted.
The South African
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Freestyle Fellowship's Innercity Griots is the Rosetta Stone for rap styles.
The Irish Times