| 单词 | housing ladder |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousing ladder housing ladder n. a notional series of ascending levels or standards of residential accommodation, in terms of quality, size, facilities, etc.; (in later use) esp. (chiefly British) = property ladder n. at property n. Compounds 3.Chiefly as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1904 Surveyor & Munic. & County Engineer 23 Sept. 360/2 Competition would right matters as regards this, the lowest rung of the housing ladder, as in the highest, so that there would always be some slum-dwellers. 1948 Study & Investig. Housing: Hearings before Joint Comm. Housing (80th U.S. Congr. 1st Sess.) 534 Every time a family moves into a new dwelling, several other families move up the housing ladder. 1985 Times (Nexis) 26 Sept. A greater number of would-be first-time buyers have succeeded in moving on to the housing ladder in London. 2012 Royston Crow (Nexis) 2 Aug. It's a low risk way of providing much needed help to people who are trying hard to get their feet on the housing ladder. < as lemmas |
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