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sprawlbusters

sprawlbusters is the plural of sprawlbuster.

Meaning of sprawlbuster

Noun

sprawlbuster (plural sprawlbusters)

  1. (urban studies) An opponent of suburban sprawl.
    • Sprawlbusters everywhere were empowered by Disney's withdrawal. Many saw the parallels to hometown proposals in Disney's 3000-acre scheme – a 400-acre theme park and parking lots, surrounded by 2300 units of suburban housing, 1.9 million square feet of mall development, two golf courses, a...1998, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Norman Mintz, Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown, Wiley-Interscience

Questions about sprawlbusters

What is sprawlbusters the plural of?
Sprawlbusters is the plural of sprawlbuster.

Words near sprawlbusters in the dictionary

  1. sprauncier
  2. spraunciest
  3. sprauncy
  4. sprawl
  5. sprawlbuster
  6. sprawlbusters
  7. sprawled
  8. sprawler
  9. sprawlers
  10. sprawlest
  11. sprawleth

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