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development area

British  

noun

  1. (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Should such movement occur, it would be outside of the development area, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023

More than 100 landowners in the development area have agreed to sell their properties for a collective $2.1 billion.

From Washington Times • Dec. 9, 2022

“You’re going to have a development area in a downtown unlike any in America,” he said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

A Huawei employee rests in his cubicle in the research and development area at the Bantian campus in Shenzen, 12 April.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2019

Villedrouin said the decree was being revised to include a registry only of land inside the development area.

From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2014

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