urban dweller

collocation in English

meaningsofurbananddweller

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɜː.bən/us
/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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dweller
noun
uk
/ˈdwel.ər/us
/ˈdwel.ɚ/
a person who lives in a city, town, ...
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(Definition ofurbananddwellerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The architect, like almost everyurbandweller, has no culture.
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Sennett (1994) argues that the gradual desensitisation of the body by our increasingly isotropic environments has destroyed the awareness of theurbandwellerto his/her physical and social milieux.
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Theurbandwellerfails entirely to realise the position of a farmer in making his contribution to the foodstuffs position of this country.
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The hill land of this country is at once the workshop of the agricultural community and the playground of theurbandweller.
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The farmer must be given protection from theurbandwellerwhom he rightly welcomes on his farm on many days of the week.
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We have somehow or other to get theurbandwellermore agriculturally minded.
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They maintain—no one can blame them—that what is good enough for theurbandwellershould be regarded as good enough also for the rural dweller.
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Another question in relation to the urgent matter of bringing the joys of the countryside to theurbandwelleris the question of satellite towns.
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Theurbandwellerdoes little mileage, so increased fuel costs are of little consequence.
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It shows the domination of theurbandweller, of the indoor worker, over the rural dweller and the outdoor worker.
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In other words, the problems of the countryside are becoming very much more the problems of theurbandweller.
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Yet theurbandwellerwaits while so much common agreement produces so little common action.
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They feel resentful, fearful, hurt and powerless in the face of what they perceive to be the superior force of theurbandweller.
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While urban areas are becoming wastelands, the all-powerful supermarkets are driving the countryman and theurbandwelleralike into the motor car.
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The agricultural labourer ought to be housed under the same conditions as theurbandweller.
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To them theurbandwellerappears to have far greater access to modern living than does the countryman.
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Theurbandwellershould have the right to feel that property will not be desecrated by what he regards as a herd of wild animals.
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We have plenty of open space where theurbandwellercan learn to love and enjoy the countryside.
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