boarded-up window

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meaningsofwindow

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window
noun
uk
/ˈwɪn.dəʊ/us
/ˈwɪn.doʊ/
a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to ...
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(Definition ofwindowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Aboarded-upwindowis located in the apex of the building; an open frame is on the ground story.
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He notes the iron bars in the windows of the house; also including some detail on theboarded-upwindow.
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Their boarded-up windows are a visible indictment of the failures of remote and bureaucratic public sector management.
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Generals are confined in dreadful conditions, often in hotels with boarded-up windows, because they will not give unequivocal allegiance to the régime.
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Other flats were occupied but had boarded-up windows.
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Liverpool is a socialist showpiece—rubbish piled up on the streets and boarded-up windows.
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In the so-called "no-go" areas, the situation is not so unreal, with the boarded-up windows and the burnt-out vehicles and the unswept streets and the slogans on the walls.
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I have been inside a number of those flats and have walked round estates with boarded-up windows, squatters, vandalism and depressing surroundings in many of them—unless work has been done.
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Unfortunately, the exterior of the hall is still in a bad state of repair with crumbling stucco, peeling paintwork and boarded-up windows.
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On the exterior, boarded-up windows, burned-out areas of the facade, and pavement instead of green spaceall in the name of economizing on maintenancecreated an atmosphere of neglect and decay.
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