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slums <a slum; slums> N

slums

urban slums

slum <a slum; slums> N

slum ECON

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slum areas

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The number of water kiosks in slums increased from about 150 in 1978 to nearly 1,500 in 1994.
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Both companies made efforts to reach the poor in slums.
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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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Most of the commoners' district is slums; however there are some wealthier areas and a bustling outdoor market.
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I have crabbed sideways through alleys in vast migrant slums.
outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com
These habitations of labourers were mere unhygienic, overcrowded slums full of stench.
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The problem worsened when some already monotonous apartment blocks degenerated into slums.
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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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The slums were gone but the new high-rise flats had become slums in the sky.
www.nottinghampost.com
Hedgerows and scarecrows, furrows and meadows; crooked streets and glowering slums; rolling smog and roaring hearths.
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