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DEPOPULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depopulation mean? 

DEPOPULATION (noun)
  The noun DEPOPULATION has 1 sense:

1. the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)play

  Familiarity information: DEPOPULATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEPOPULATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("depopulation" is a kind of...):

environmental condition (the state of the environment)

Derivation:

depopulate (reduce in population)


 Context examples 


Birth rates were expanding right up to the depopulation.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)



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