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scatter site

scatter site noun: an area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people; such housing is scattered across different parts of a city rather than concentrated in one place.

Noun

scatter site (plural scatter sites)

  1. An area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people; such housing is scattered across different parts of a city rather than concentrated in one place.
    • It is designed for single-family use in subdivisions or scatter sites and available as a standardized product […]1976, Cost effective housing systems for disaster relief, volume 4, page 131
    • Living conditions in scatter sites depend largely on landlords' compliance and a little bit of luck.2002, City Limits, volume 27, number 8, page 24

Forms of scatter site

pluralscatter sites

Questions about scatter site

What does scatter site mean?
Scatter site means an area of state-sponsored housing used as a shelter for homeless people; such housing is scattered across different parts of a city rather than concentrated in one place.
What part of speech is scatter site?
Scatter site is a noun.
What is the plural of scatter site?
The plural of scatter site is scatter sites.

Words near scatter site in the dictionary

  1. scatter plots
  2. scatter point
  3. scatter points
  4. scatter rug
  5. scatter rugs
  6. scatter site
  7. scatter sites
  8. scatter'd
  9. scatter-brained
  10. scatter-gun
  11. scatter-guns

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