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URBAN RENEWAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does urban renewal mean?
• URBAN RENEWAL (noun)
The noun URBAN RENEWAL has 1 sense:
1. the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums
Familiarity information: URBAN RENEWAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("urban renewal" is a kind of...):
reclamation; rehabilitation; renewal (the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation)
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