thriving town

collocation in English

meaningsofthrivingandtown

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thriving
adjective
uk
/ˈθraɪ.vɪŋ/
us
/ˈθraɪ.vɪŋ/
growing, developing, or ...
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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 ofthrivingandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is in the middle of athrivingtowncentre.
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This oncethrivingtown, in a once thriving area, has been reduced to dire straits.
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Athrivingtowncentre, however, is successful economically, socially and environmentally.
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Today, it is athrivingtownwith many different firms, large and small.
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It is encouraging to see athrivingtowncentre into which a lot of thought has gone, and some fine new buildings.
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Stourbridge is an attractive and oncethrivingtown.
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Suppose a village, four or five miles from athrivingtown, has at present a large agricultural population, growing the ordinary kind of food that is grown by ordinary agriculturists.
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Dagenham at present is athrivingtown.
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Farming and fishing became the chief industries of the new andthrivingtown.
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Additionally, there were several stores and two banks in thethrivingtown.
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Gilmore was once athrivingtown, but it now houses fewer than a hundred people.
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It became athrivingtownwith an economy based on mining, milling and smelting.
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It was formerly a fairlythrivingtown, but today is merely a housing sub-division.
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Athrivingtownemerged to serve the timber workers and those passing through.
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Major work was done to the ramparts which were encircling a bigthrivingtown.
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Kangding, once the provincial capital, is now athrivingtown.
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Moore was athrivingtownaround the turn of the 20th century.
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Leamington quickly grew into one of the most fashionable spa resorts of the 19th century, a process which turned it from a sleepy village to athrivingtown.
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