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HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management
Example:
they live in the new housing development
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("housing development" is a kind of...):
development (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "housing development"):
housing project; public housing (a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families)
Holonyms ("housing development" is a part of...):
community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)
