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

“It was in an economically depressed area … and vacant for many years,” said Colin Tarbert, president and chief executive of the Baltimore Development Corp.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2022

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

At an early period this depressed area drained southward to the Colorado, and the bed of the old outlet can still be traced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various