suburban area

collocation in English

meaningsofsuburbanandarea

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suburban
adjective
uk
/səˈbɜː.bən/
us
/səˈbɝː.bən/
relating to ...
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area
noun
uk
/ˈeə.ri.ə/
us
/ˈer.i.ə/
a particular part of a place, piece of land, ...
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(Definition ofsuburbanandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsuburban area

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Urban: equals one if a person lives in an urban/suburbanarea; it equals zero if the person lives in a rural/farm area.
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The school that my respondents attended is a mixed comprehensive school in a generally middle-class,suburbanarea.
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The census figures for 1911 do not include much of thissuburbanarea, and so are not strictly comparable with the 1926 data.
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It is in the middle of asuburbanareaand houses are adjacent to it.
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What is lacking is a system of orbital roads, so that people can get easily from onesuburbanareato another.
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The sanitary facilities in this school, which is in an essentially newsuburbanarea, are about half of the statutory requirement.
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I live in what might be called asuburbanarea.
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I represent a moresuburbanarea, where the metropolis meets the countryside, with all sorts of development.
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That is of grave concern to my constituents, and to his in a moresuburbanarea.
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Imagine what it must be like for 10-year-olds or 12-year-olds who live in an inner-city orsuburbanarea.
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In my sort ofsuburbanarea, housing is built up around employers and employment and in places where businesses no longer want to go.
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My constituency has an image of being a green, leafy and pleasantsuburbanareain which to live.
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In thatsuburbanareathe tenants will not be protected by the limitation of £48 per annum.
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Another result will very likely be that you may have a residentialsuburbanareawhere the people do not want a public-house.
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There are unlicensed cabs in virtually every city andsuburbanarea.
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Our worry is that unlesssuburbanareareceive attention on two levels we shall be faced with another dramatic round of cuts.
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Here is a route to serve asuburbanarea.
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The family man, however, will get no concession, because he was compelled formerly to take up residence in asuburbanarea.
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Take, for example, an electrified line in thesuburbanarea.
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Surely it is true that in a loosely linked largelysuburbanareawith poor lateral communications any choice of headquarters will be inconvenient for some people.
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