DERELICT


Meaning of DERELICT in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a derelict building (= empty and in very bad condition )

Near the canal there are a number of derelict buildings.

vacant/derelict British English (= unused )

The houses could be built on derelict land.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

building

Sandra paints from photographs she takes of old, often derelict buildings .

The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets.

In adjacent streets, there are disused and even derelict buildings which would far better repay investment.

Hotel deal Mr Pratt said they have already bought and renovated another derelict building in the same area.

I mean people who are sleeping in parks and doorways, in derelict buildings and under railway arches.

Development plan policies should also encourage the reuse of derelict buildings .

house

He heard a click and stepped back quickly as the bolt thudded into the wall of the derelict house behind him.

It had also kept him from going back to his derelict house in the scrap yard and taking Dooley with him.

Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house .

Every where it forms thickets: on derelict houses , along roadsides, on wasteground.

We spent several nights there in a derelict house without a roof.

The former had come to Chant in a derelict house in Clerkenwell; about that there was no ambiguity.

land

Where possible we use derelict land first - for instance this estate here was built on the site of a factory.

Looks at patterns of development, the approach of house builders to derelict land , and brownfield risk analysis.

The new facilities will be sited in a former rundown building in Main Street and on adjoining derelict land .

But one has to be careful, a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction.

Maybe if they had we would have transformed a piece of derelict land .

They involve a variety of practical conservation activities - energy-saving, waste recycling and the greening of derelict land .

And whilst derelict land supports the activities of man it provides a home for plants and animals.

site

This must be coupled with the creation of an attractive environment, through the transformation of derelict sites .

Glasgow's industrial history has left many large derelict sites .

Margaret Thatcher's governments encouraged the old nationalised industries to sell derelict sites which retailers snapped up for building superstores.

He thought of the derelict site and the broken wall.

A young man walked across the derelict site and hesitated as he reached Tony's car.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

derelict homes and businesses

In the middle of town is a derelict building that used to be the school.

The land behind the factory is stony and derelict .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An' the entire derelict bloody city an' all.

It includes derelict factories and some of the poorest housing in the country.

Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire, for their new community association.

Sandra paints from photographs she takes of old, often derelict buildings.

The derelict PBYs were thoroughly exploded for the film.

The site has been derelict since the 1960s, when the old gas works was demolished.

This had become a wilderness of weeds and bushes but hidden deep inside was a derelict conservatory demanding to be restored.

Today the site of the Mill is derelict .

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Dons were no longer the comic derelicts that flit through Victorian fiction or the novels of Evelyn Waugh.

He seemed to take for granted that she would share his views on the derelicts.

Most witches were women, often aged derelicts who wielded great influence over the people.

The neighborhood is dominated by the Waterloo train station and peopled by derelicts late at night.

The park was swarming with students and drug dealers, tourists and derelicts.

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