poor district

collocation in English

meaningsofpooranddistrict

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poor
adjective
uk
/pɔːr/us
/pʊr/
having little money and/or ...
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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition ofpooranddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpoor district

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It is no good pretending that an all-through comprehensive in apoordistrictwill offer them the same opportunity.
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The constituency was formerly a verypoordistrict, dependent very largely upon riverside traffic for the maintenance of its residents.
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I farm very poor land in a verypoordistrict.
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I speak as representing a verypoordistrict, where the rates have been very high for the last three or four years.
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That is a very serious matter with apoordistrict.
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I represent a verypoordistrict, in which a large number of electors and the inhabitants are railway employés.
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What chance has he in apoordistrictschool where there will probably be no tradition for staying on longer to develop his potential capacity?
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It is not apoordistrictin terms of the people who work there and who contribute to the national budget.
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If it is apoordistrictit subscribes less to the general pool of the national exchequer.
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Go to any ordinary elementary school in apoordistrict, examine the children, observe their height, their appearance, and their general physical standard.
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Yet we are told we have to shoulder this responsibility because we live in apoordistrict.
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He broke into a shop, a small general shop in apoordistrict, and robbed the till.
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It is true that it is apoordistrictand that we have not the people who can protest in higher circles.
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I think the burden upon apoordistrictlike that is very heavy and ought to be removed.
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Strange to say, those sites are right in the heart of a verypoordistrict.
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They should be less to the rich and more to thepoordistrict.
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I know that is so from my experience of a verypoordistrict.
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I have only got to take a verypoordistrictas an example of this.
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I do not think that apoordistrictought to be called upon to support its own poor.
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The people in thatpoordistrictare more heavily taxed for amusement than others are.
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