| 单词 | squatter camp |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquatter camp squatter camp n. (also squatters' camp) South African an area in or around a town, occupied (usually without permission) by the very poor for whom no housing provision has been made. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s) rookery1824 slum1825 slumdom1882 warren1884 slummery1892 slumland1893 barrack yard1903 tenement yard1914 borgata1929 string slum1939 squatter camp1956 favela1961 1956 T. Huddleston Naught for your Comfort iii. 48 It is about ten or twelve miles from the centre of the city—a squatters' camp..a conglomeration of lean-to, corrugated-iron and mud-brick dwellings. 1956 T. Huddleston Naught for your Comfort vi. 106 I decided to fight it [sc. an eviction order]..even though it meant that the squatter camp, with all the inevitable hardships it must entail, would remain and would grow. 1970 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. II. 141/1 That objective [sc. residential segregation] was realised in part by providing more and better housing for the Bantu and by demolishing squatters' camps and slums. 1986 Daily Tel. 7 Oct. 20/3 The Archbishop..parading around the squatter camp of Crossroads in South Africa, apparently under the impression that it was typical of the way black South Africans have to live. < as lemmas |
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