affluent suburb

collocation in English

meaningsofaffluentandsuburb

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affluent
adjective
uk
/ˈæf.lu.ənt/us
/ˈæf.lu.ənt/
having a lot of money or owning a lot ...
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suburb
noun
uk
/ˈsʌb.ɜːb/us
/ˈsʌb.ɝːb/
an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city ...
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(Definition ofaffluentandsuburbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Environmental disaster makes no distinction, for example, between the sink estate and theaffluentsuburb.
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It is a pleasant, airy, leafy,affluentsuburb.
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The national curriculum provides a national entitlement to education for every child in this country, whether they live in inner city,affluentsuburbor rural village.
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They might be rich or poor, live in the inner city or in anaffluentsuburb.
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Belmont has become anaffluentsuburbwith large estates sitting on acres of land.
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People in affluent suburbs are in fear of crime, and are often afraid to go out at night.
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There is a kind of richness in a place like that, and a kind of poverty in our so affluent suburbs.
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That is not in the affluent suburbs but in the outer areas of large cities.
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Is the rush hour from the affluent suburbs half an hour earlier?
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However, in the case of schools in more affluent suburbs, which feel able to demand a more elaborate uniform the local authority makes a more substantial contribution.
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It is the party of the stockbroker belt and of the comfortable affluent suburbs, and it is the interests of those areas which it is seeking to preserve.
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Their songs reflect life in the less affluent suburbs.
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Is it taking us to communism; or to the affluent suburbs, nicely rounded out with social overhead capital; to destruction; to the moon; or where?
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Many of the chain's stores in low-income urban areas are significantly smaller than those in affluent suburbs.
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In fact, most garden cities were affluent suburbs, not true cities in their own right.
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The disparity in expenditures on education between inner cities and affluent suburbs exist almost entirely due to the system of property taxes which most school systems rely on for funding.
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