slums in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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I.slum [Brit slʌm, Am sləm] N

II.also slum it <forma in -ing slumming, pt, pp slummed> VB intr inf

slum dwelling [ˈslʌmˌdwelɪŋ] N

slum clearance [ˌslʌmˈklɪərəns] N

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she clawed her way out of the slums
si è fatta strada faticosamente per uscire dai bassifondi
residential, rural, slum area
zona residenziale, rurale, di slum
foul place, slum
sporco, sozzo, sudicio

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slums in the PONS Dictionary

slums Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to live in slum conditions
vivere nella miseria

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There disease, unhealthy slums, and destitution were the daily lot of the people who were trying to survive.
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Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally-built dwellings that because of poor-quality design or construction have deteriorated into slums.
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They ignore the housing problem, although more than half the nation's families, including millions of veterans, are homeless or living in rural and urban slums.
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Prior to the 1950s these slums were replaced with low-rise council housing, mostly constructed in new estates on the edge of the city.
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With such a game-changing impact of the massive flow of migrants to the cities, migrant slums are the global issue of this century.
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It demonstrates how tearing down slums and building modern settlements does not immediately change the culture of the inhabitants.
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Hedgerows and scarecrows, furrows and meadows; crooked streets and glowering slums; rolling smog and roaring hearths.
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Later, in the poverty-stricken 50s, she worked in factories; and when the going got really tough - after her first marriage foundered - she gathered garbage at the slums' rubbish dump.
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This is not to glorify or sentimentalise the urban poor and their self-help housing, as many slums can be equally characterised by the opposite qualities of ruthless individualism and petty-exploitation.
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While national politics and anti-communism sentiment played out during this decade, urban renewal ravaged the downtown areas and cleared slums, impacting poor communities.
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