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slumburb en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of slum + suburb.

Meanings

1. A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.
   • And in New Jersey today, there is still no official word on the shooting that occurred in South Orange, a slumburb of Essex. 1995, J. R. Dunn, This Side of Judgment, →ISBN:
   • Theirs is not a complete vision by any means, with the multiple ethnicities and races of actual suburbs conspicuously absent, but it does suggest that we challenge rather than accept slumburb imagery. 2016, Carl Abbott, Imagining Urban Futures, →ISBN:
   • There is a likelihood that there will be an explosion of "slumburbs," as cities will be unable to provide basic services, much less information-related services. 2000, Patrick J. DeSouza, Economic Strategy and National Security: A Next Generation Approach:

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