exurb
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English
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[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/, /ˈɛkˌsɜːb/
- (General American ) IPA (key): /ˈɛɡˌzɝb/, /ˈɛkˌsɝb/
Noun
[edit ]exurb (plural exurbs )
- A residential area beyond the suburbs.
- 2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, "Exurbs delenda est", in The Atlantic[1] :
- I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
- 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 91:
- Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
- 2023 July 7, Paul Salopek, "China's Hinge", in National Geographic[2] , archived from the original on 20 July 2023:
- Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.
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