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RUSTBELT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rustbelt mean? 

RUSTBELT (noun)
  The noun RUSTBELT has 1 sense:

1. urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RUSTBELT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

populated area; urban area (a geographical area constituting a city or town)

Holonyms ("Rustbelt" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)


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