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

The Lukoil-owned site in Sicily refines a fifth of Italy's crude and directly employs about 1,000 people in an economically depressed area.

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 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

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