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urban blights

urban blights is the plural of urban blight.

Meaning of urban blight

Noun

urban blight (countable and uncountable, plural urban blights)

  1. (urban studies) Urban decay consisting of the deterioration of part of a town or city due to ageing, neglect, and lack of financial support for maintenance.
    • Walking around SoHo's glamorous bistros and boutiques it is difficult to imagine that a few decades ago the area was urban blight that the city wanted to knock down and build a freeway through.2006 August 20, Paul Harris, “Invasion of high-fliers ends Bowery's low life”, in The Observer
    Synonyms:
    urban rot

Questions about urban blights

What is urban blights the plural of?
Urban blights is the plural of urban blight.

Words near urban blights in the dictionary

  1. Urbaez
  2. Urbaezes
  3. urbainite
  4. urban
  5. urban blight
  6. urban blights
  7. urban boarding
  8. urban boulevard
  9. urban boulevards
  10. urban canyon
  11. urban contemporary

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