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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

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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

A total of 102 landowners in the development area have agreed to sell their properties for a collective $2.1 billion.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2022

“New Carrollton, as a transit-oriented development area, has been envisioned as something that is walkable and bikeable, that is multimodal,” Rodgers said.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 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

“The coastal infrastructure design is expected to include a flood defence embankment protecting the development area to international standards, set back from the shoreline,” it said.

From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2018