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rustbelts

rustbelts is the plural 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.

Questions about rustbelts

What is rustbelts the plural of?
Rustbelts is the plural of rustbelt.

Words near rustbelts in the dictionary

  1. Rustage
  2. Rustages
  3. Rustam
  4. Rustavi
  5. rustbelt
  6. rustbelts
  7. rustbucket
  8. rustbuckets
  9. Rustburg
  10. rusted
  11. rusted off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rustbelts (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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