housing association

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noun

social welfare (in Britain) a non-profit-making body whose purpose is to build, convert, or improve houses for letting at fair rents

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Words nearby housing association

houseworker, housewrecker, house wren, housey-housey, housing, housing association, housing benefit, housing development, housing estate, housing project, housing scheme

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How to use housing association in a sentence

Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?
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The juxtaposition planted a story of association on websites that touted both men for their talks.
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The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.
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They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.
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He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
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"It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.
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In the meanwhile, Planner grew actually enamoured of the Pantamorphica Association.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Governor Endicott, and other influential men in Massachusetts, formed an association against wearing long hair!
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The Association itself was in the same condition—gone irrecoverably likewise.
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Probably this is due to the long association of intellectuality and science with heresy.
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