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rust-belt

rust-belt is the alternative form of rustbelt.

Meaning of rustbelt

Noun

rustbelt (plural rustbelts)

  1. A region of dilapidated or former manufacturing concerns.
    • The rustbelt was hit hard by the recession because it no longer had the high-paying manufacturing jobs to keep the tax base up.

Forms of rust-belt

pluralrust-belts

Questions about rust-belt

What is rust-belt the alternative form of?
Rust-belt is the alternative form of rustbelt.

Words near rust-belt in the dictionary

  1. rust mite
  2. rust mites
  3. rust off
  4. rust out
  5. rust through
  6. rust-belt
  7. rust-belts
  8. rust-bucket
  9. rust-buckets
  10. rust-free
  11. rust-proof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rust-belt (page history and authors); rustbelt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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