social decay
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialanddecay
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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decay
noun[U]
uk/dɪˈkeɪ/us/dɪˈkeɪ/
the process ...
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(Definition ofsocialanddecayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In a conurbation the areas ofsocialdecaytend to spread outwards.
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The other extreme of under-employment, depopulation andsocialdecayis equally intolerable and costly.
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As living standards have fallen, people have seen the results ofsocialdecayand injustice all around them.
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Support for families is a source of great strength for many, and its decline is seen as a cause ofsocialdecayfor many people.
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He says that the bill for youth unemployment, crime andsocialdecayis reckoned to be no less than £10 billion.
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They provide no dramatic solution to the problems of areas of industrial andsocialdecay.
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If we allow any region to decline, economic andsocialdecaywill result and the ability of the whole economy to compete will be weakened.
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Five years ago, when we came to power, we inherited a legacy of economic failure andsocialdecay.
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The background to their regime has been generally rising unemployment,socialdecay, rising crime and falling confidence.
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On the contrary, we had industrial paralysis, economic stagnation andsocialdecay.
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What does that mean set against a background ofsocialdecay?
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Whenever homes in slum areas, or in areas ofsocialdecay, are rebuilt, there is always population left over.
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Clearing the slums and beautifying areas ofsocialdecaywould make a larger impact on that situation than on anything else.
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These are people whose faith in the capacity of the democratic system to produce real and lasting improvement is tested daily by crime, poor housing andsocialdecay.
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I dare not call it an area ofsocialdecay, because the area concerned has already complained to me at being called an area ofsocialdecay.
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For a journalist,socialdecaymay provide material for so many column inches per week; for a politician, a platform; and for a drug company, a lucrative new market.
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Race films typically avoided explicit depictions of poverty, ghettos,socialdecay, and crime.
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The 1970s to the mid-1980s were years of general urban andsocialdecaymarked by social and political unrest and violence.
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The lack of the checks and inhibitions that the upper classes should represent seemed to him an unmistakable sign ofsocialdecay.
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From among members of an internal proletariat who transcend thesocialdecaya church may arise.
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