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disaster area en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.
   • Much of the central Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area after hurricane Katrina.
2. (also, figuratively) An area that looks like one that has suffered a natural disaster.
   • Your room is a disaster area.
   • And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds. 2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe:

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Translations (10)

kw terosva (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · fr région sinistrée (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · de Katastrophengebiet (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · ru зо́на бе́дствия (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · ar منطقة منكوبة (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · pl obszar klęski (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · fi tuhoalue (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · nl rampgebied (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · fr zone sinistrée (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster) · sv katastrofområde (area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster)