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council house en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK) A house built and operated by a county council or a town council, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.
   • She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door." 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
   • The modern council house, with its bathroom and electric light, is smaller than the stockbroker's villa, but it is recognizably the same kind of house, which the farm labourer’s cottage is not. 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

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Relateds

council-housed · council estate · council housing · council housing estate

Translations (6)

hu önkormányzatiház (bér) (house built and operated by a local council) · de sozialer Wohnungsbau (house built and operated by a local council) · mia aacimweekaani (house built and operated by a local council) · fi kunnan omistama vuokra-asunto (house built and operated by a local council) · el εργατική κατοικία (house built and operated by a local council) · cy tŷ cyngor (house built and operated by a local council)