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antidevelopment

antidevelopment adjective: opposed to development, particularly the development of neighborhoods or land.

Adjective

antidevelopment (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to development, particularly the development of neighborhoods or land
    • The problematic notion in all of this is that of antidevelopment forces working in concert.1988 September 16, Michael Miner, “"Politics of Poverty": Why Did John McCarron Do That?”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of antidevelopment

From anti- + development.

Questions about antidevelopment

What does antidevelopment mean?
Antidevelopment means opposed to development, particularly the development of neighborhoods or land.
What part of speech is antidevelopment?
Antidevelopment is an adjective.

Words near antidevelopment in the dictionary

  1. antidetonator
  2. antidetonators
  3. antideuterium
  4. antideuteron
  5. antideuterons
  6. antidevelopment
  7. antidevolution
  8. antidevolutionist
  9. antidevolutionists
  10. antidextran
  11. antidextrans

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