industrial town
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindustrialandtown
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industrial
adjective
uk/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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town
noun
uk/taʊn/us/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The coexistence of newindustrialtownand remnant agrarian hamlet was thus increasingly untenable.
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The school was a comprehensive 11-14 school, on the outskirts of anindustrialtown.
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These are resort towns; the suburbs; theindustrialtown; and the post-industrial city.
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Perhaps others will attempt the same approach by examining the changes in a mining village or anindustrialtown.
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What do those people known about a thrivingindustrialtown.
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It is anindustrialtownbased originally in the linen industry.
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In the ordinary family in the ordinaryindustrialtownhalf-a-dozen vocations are followed.
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Many seaside resorts have found great benefit from marrying their seaside activities with anindustrialtown.
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Yet it is a bigindustrialtownwhich is already far too large.
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There is no accepted definition of anyindustrialtown.
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They are queueing up in everyindustrialtown, rich and poor alike.
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That is in the centre of anindustrialtown.
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We are not a naturalindustrialtown—we are in the middle of the countryside.
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Anything more depressing than the average school playground in anyindustrialtownis difficult to discover.
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The streets of thatindustrialtownformed a background that is woven into my memories.
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Let us look at the question of balance as between county andindustrialtown.
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This is out of all proportion in a majorindustrialtown.
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They are situated, very likely, in the middle of anindustrialtown.
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It is a good example to take because it is a very oldindustrialtown.
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