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

“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

Wahkiakum hasn’t been able to convince voters in this rural, depressed area to approve a bond measure because it would dramatically increase property taxes.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

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

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

Furthermore, before or inside each gateway there is a slightly depressed area, just where we would expect to find it under our hypothesis, and showing that the process of filling in is not yet completed.

From Casa Grande Ruin Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 289-318 by Mindeleff, Cosmos