| 单词 | sink estate |
| 释义 | > as lemmassink estate sink estate n. British a housing estate in a socially deprived area. ΚΠ 1976 New Society 18 Nov. 365/2 Somewhere, in every town that has council houses at all, there's a ‘sink’ estate—the roughest and shabbiest on the books, disproportionately tenanted by families with problems, and despised both by those who live there and the town at large. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vi. 128 He had grown up on one of the most notorious sink estates in Shadwell. < as lemmas |
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