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inner-city en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
    • [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain. 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
    • Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released. 2005, George Lipsitz, Youthscapes, The Popular, the National, the Global, page 207:

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innercity alternative lexicographic
most inner-city Degree=Sup lexicographic
more inner-city Degree=Cmp lexicographic