depressed area

collocation in English

meaningsofdepressedandarea

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depressed
adjective
uk
/dɪˈprest/us
/dɪˈprest/
unhappy and ...
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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 ofdepressedandareafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In fact, in such an economicallydepressedarea, there are only positive repercussions correlated with maintaining ethnic identity.
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But the point is that he is employing in adepressedareaover 40 people.
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What is the good of bringing men from onedepressedareainto anotherdepressedareato carry out schemes of work?
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At the present time it is adepressedarea.
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In its view, the alternative would be chronic penury in that highlydepressedarea.
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I do not suggest that such a five-point package will solve all the problems of our tragicallydepressedarea.
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You could not get an industry sent from a congested area to adepressedareaunless you used some pressure and some legislation.
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This is already adepressedarea, with 51,000 unemployed.
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They would be of great value for getting the unemployed from some desperatelydepressedareaaway with their families for a complete change of scene.
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We have been the greatestdepressedareafor a very long period, perhaps a century and a half.
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It also has the attraction, quite apart from increasing labour in adepressedarea, of having a very small import content.
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I came from adepressedareawhich is beginning to be almost as depressed as it was then.
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If we can get industries into the depressed areas, it will not be by robbing some otherdepressedarea.
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I have had experience of adepressedarea.
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Whatever changes may take place, it remains classified as adepressedarea.
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It is an entirely faulty basis for a statutory definition of adepressedareato found it on something which has no logical basis whatever.
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Surely had the industries of an area been kept going, there would have been nodepressedarea.
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A third of our men are permanently unemployed, and we have been adepressedareaover a year, but nothing is done for this area.
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In my constituency and the neighbourhood, when the crisis came in 1931 we found ourselves a verydepressedarea.
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That will never lead adepressedareaanywhere.
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