isolated town

collocation in English

meaningsofisolatedandtown

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isolated
adjective
uk
/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.t̬ɪd/
not near to ...
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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 ofisolatedandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a somewhatisolatedtownwhich is heavily dependent on road transport due to the decline in its bus services.
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Once again this town will revert to a situation of high male unemployment, in relative terms, in anisolatedtownset in a very rural area.
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It is a ratherisolatedtown.
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Gainsborough is anisolatedtown, and there are no other engineering firms in the area.
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Once anisolatedtown, the transport infrastructure changed dramatically in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Esperance is anisolatedtownand it is not connected to the electricity grid.
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It is a fairly segregated andisolatedtown.
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Theisolatedtowncan not hope to be relieved.
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Theisolatedtownhas very limited facilities, with only a few houses, a camping ground and boat ramp.
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In both cases, a heroine drives to anisolatedtown, well off the main road, and stays at a hotel.
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All of this embodies their high standard of living, a rather rare phenomenon for such anisolatedtown.
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The inhabitants of both planets live in isolated towns.
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Roads were cut for up to a fortnight resulting in food shortages in many isolated towns.
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The national highways passing through the state are ranked the best in the country with widespread road networks that serve isolated towns as well as the border region.
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They also provide food to isolated towns in rural areas that don't have access to large amounts of food.
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