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Meanings of shantytown in English

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Usage of shantytown in English
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A year after landing, New Caprica City is, at best, a shantytown.
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
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It was some kind of shantytown village tucked away among the trees.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
3
Tells about the arrests made at the Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez shantytown.
The new yorker
4
Almost overnight, several kilometers of barren land become a bustling shantytown.
Reuters
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This Bonneyville's an awful shantytown; everybody in it is related to everybody else.
Lone Star Planet
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Yeah, that shantytown full of future corpses you're trying to treat like grown-ups.
Cibola Burn
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She comes from a poor neighborhood, a shantytown somewhere in Soweto.
Feminist dot com
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Last year, authorities reported rescuing at least 68 trafficking victims from the shantytown's nightclubs.
Reuters
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It was this place, this vast shantytown, that was the source of the screams.
The Scarlet Gospels
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Today, the neighbourhood is little more than a chaotic shantytown.
The Guardian
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She came from humble beginnings in a shantytown near Johannesburg.
The Irish Times
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In a separate bust, Kimberley SAPS searched a shack in the Transit Camp shantytown.
The South African
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He does a little more looking around, checking out the perimeter of the shantytown.
Snow Crash
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The man patted him on the head, then stumped away deeper into the shantytown.
Casket of Souls
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Within months Gabriel's Gully, as it is still called today, became a thriving canvas shantytown.
Radio NZ
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The impact on prices in smaller cities, where shantytown redevelopments are concentrated, may be substantial.
Reuters
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