slum in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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I.slum [Brit slʌm, Am sləm] N

II.slum <pres part etc slumming, slummed> [Brit slʌm, Am sləm] VB intr inf a. slum it

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residential/rural/slum area
zone f résidentielle/rurale/pauvre
foul place, slum, conditions
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slum in the PONS Dictionary

slum Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to slum it iron hum
zoner
the lack of privacy in a slum
promiscuité d'un taudis
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Both companies made efforts to reach the poor in slums.
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The money was spent on an extensive housing and slum-clearing project and a successful campaign to eradicate tuberculosis.
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In some slums the majority of residents does not have legal access to water, and most people get water from tankers or water points.
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Afterwards, the government began to bulldoze slum areas and built public housing in its place.
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Slums consequently began to emerge from the hasty haphazard building construction to accommodate the huge influx.
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An encounter with some school students who call him an uneducated brute changes the life of this slum boy.
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One of his most interesting contributions was his scheme for abolishing slum areas, written in 1935.
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Towards the end of the 19th century, the status of the area dropped and it became a high-density working class area, with many slums.
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Despite the attempts at eradication, however, many "becak" still operate near slums throughout the city.
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Around 11,300 inhabitants, mostly port workers crammed into insanitary slums, lost their homes; only the property owners received compensation.
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