depressed area

American  

noun

1. a region where unemployment and a low standard of living prevail.

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Etymology

Origin of depressed area

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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depressed area

“It’s kind of a depressed area of Medford, and they’ve been able to make that a place people want to go,” Stine said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Macron headed Monday to an economically depressed area of northern France where a majority of voters had chosen Le Pen, close to her electoral stronghold of Henin-Beaumont.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 2022

The centrist Macron is heading to an economically depressed area of northern France where a majority of voters chose Le Pen, close to her electoral stronghold of Henin-Beaumont.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2022

Director Nick Hamm grew up in Northern Ireland where the British government had lured DeLorean to build his factory in a bid to bring economic prosperity to a depressed area riven by deadly sectarian violence.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2018

You can recognize it everywhere on the hazel by the distinctly depressed area of bark, which should be cut out before it gets to be the size of a quarter.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 by Northern Nut Growers Association