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upzoning

upzoning is the present participle and gerund of upzone.

Meaning of upzone

Verb

upzone (third-person singular simple present upzones, present participle upzoning, simple past and past participle upzoned)

  1. (US, transitive) To rezone for more intensive use.
    • For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone.2001, Randal O'Toole, The vanishing automobile and other urban myths

Noun

upzoning (countable and uncountable, plural upzonings)

  1. (US) A rezoning for more intensive use.

Forms of upzoning

pluralupzonings

Questions about upzoning

What does upzoning mean?
Upzoning means a rezoning for more intensive use.
What is upzoning the present participle and gerund of?
Upzoning is the present participle and gerund of upzone.
What part of speech is upzoning?
Upzoning is a noun.
What is the plural of upzoning?
The plural of upzoning is upzonings.

Words near upzoning in the dictionary

  1. upyields
  2. upz
  3. upzone
  4. upzoned
  5. upzones
  6. upzoning
  7. upzonings
  8. Upāli
  9. UQ
  10. UQAM
  11. uqamairineq

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upzoning (page history and authors); upzone (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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