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sponge city

sponge city noun: an urban planning model that emphasizes flood management by strengthening green infrastructures instead of purely relying on drainage systems.

Noun

sponge city (countable and uncountable, plural sponge cities)

  1. (uncountable) An urban planning model that emphasizes flood management by strengthening green infrastructures instead of purely relying on drainage systems.
  2. (countable) A city that adopts such a model.

Forms of sponge city

pluralsponge cities

Questions about sponge city

What does sponge city mean?
Sponge city means an urban planning model that emphasizes flood management by strengthening green infrastructures instead of purely relying on drainage systems.
What part of speech is sponge city?
Sponge city is a noun.
What is the plural of sponge city?
The plural of sponge city is sponge cities.

Words near sponge city in the dictionary

  1. sponge brush
  2. sponge brushes
  3. sponge cake
  4. sponge cakes
  5. sponge cities
  6. sponge city
  7. sponge cloth
  8. sponge construction
  9. sponge constructions
  10. sponge crab
  11. sponge crabs

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