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food deserts

food deserts is the plural of food desert.

Meaning of food desert

Noun

food desert (plural food deserts)

  1. (figuratively) A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain.
    • For years, major supermarket chains have been criticized for abandoning densely populated, largely black and Latino communities in cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis and Newark, N.J. — contributing to what many experts call food deserts.2009 May 26, Steven Gray, “Can America's urban food deserts bloom?”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2016

Questions about food deserts

What is food deserts the plural of?
Food deserts is the plural of food desert.

Words near food deserts in the dictionary

  1. food courts
  2. food critic
  3. food crop
  4. food crops
  5. food desert
  6. food deserts
  7. food digger
  8. food drive
  9. food drives
  10. food fall
  11. food falls

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