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单词 slum dwelling
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slum dwelling in British English

(slʌm ˈdwɛlɪŋ)
noun
another name for slum (sense 1)
 

slum in British English

(slʌm)
noun
1. 
a squalid overcrowded house, etc
2. (often plural)
a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding
3. (modifier)
of, relating to, or characteristic of slums
slum conditions
verbWord forms: slums, slumming or slummed (intransitive)
4. 
to visit slums, esp for curiosity
5.  Also: slum it
to suffer conditions below those to which one is accustomed
Derived forms
slummer (ˈslummer)
noun
slummy (ˈslummy)
adjective
Word origin
C19: originally slang, of obscure origin

Examples of 'slum dwelling' in a sentence
slum dwelling

Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The seafront was a shanty town full of barraques — slum-dwellings — with no beach, just a railway line used for nearby factories.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Next door in the slum dwelling's only other room, the family sat fretting over what to do.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He is intelligent and charming, never glib nor irritating, adaptable and as at home and relaxed in stockbrokers' mansions as he is in slum dwellings.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
By razing the slum dwellings of some two million opposition supporters in 2005, he disenfranchised them.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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