I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a derelict building (= empty and in very bad condition )
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Near the canal there are a number of derelict buildings.
vacant/derelict British English (= unused )
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The houses could be built on derelict land.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
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Sandra paints from photographs she takes of old, often derelict buildings .
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The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets.
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In adjacent streets, there are disused and even derelict buildings which would far better repay investment.
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Hotel deal Mr Pratt said they have already bought and renovated another derelict building in the same area.
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I mean people who are sleeping in parks and doorways, in derelict buildings and under railway arches.
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Development plan policies should also encourage the reuse of derelict buildings .
house
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He heard a click and stepped back quickly as the bolt thudded into the wall of the derelict house behind him.
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It had also kept him from going back to his derelict house in the scrap yard and taking Dooley with him.
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Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house .
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Every where it forms thickets: on derelict houses , along roadsides, on wasteground.
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We spent several nights there in a derelict house without a roof.
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The former had come to Chant in a derelict house in Clerkenwell; about that there was no ambiguity.
land
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Where possible we use derelict land first - for instance this estate here was built on the site of a factory.
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Looks at patterns of development, the approach of house builders to derelict land , and brownfield risk analysis.
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The new facilities will be sited in a former rundown building in Main Street and on adjoining derelict land .
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But one has to be careful, a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction.
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Maybe if they had we would have transformed a piece of derelict land .
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They involve a variety of practical conservation activities - energy-saving, waste recycling and the greening of derelict land .
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And whilst derelict land supports the activities of man it provides a home for plants and animals.
site
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This must be coupled with the creation of an attractive environment, through the transformation of derelict sites .
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Glasgow's industrial history has left many large derelict sites .
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Margaret Thatcher's governments encouraged the old nationalised industries to sell derelict sites which retailers snapped up for building superstores.
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He thought of the derelict site and the broken wall.
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A young man walked across the derelict site and hesitated as he reached Tony's car.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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derelict homes and businesses
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In the middle of town is a derelict building that used to be the school.
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The land behind the factory is stony and derelict .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An' the entire derelict bloody city an' all.
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It includes derelict factories and some of the poorest housing in the country.
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Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire, for their new community association.
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Sandra paints from photographs she takes of old, often derelict buildings.
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The derelict PBYs were thoroughly exploded for the film.
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The site has been derelict since the 1960s, when the old gas works was demolished.
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This had become a wilderness of weeds and bushes but hidden deep inside was a derelict conservatory demanding to be restored.
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Today the site of the Mill is derelict .
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dons were no longer the comic derelicts that flit through Victorian fiction or the novels of Evelyn Waugh.
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He seemed to take for granted that she would share his views on the derelicts.
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Most witches were women, often aged derelicts who wielded great influence over the people.
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The neighborhood is dominated by the Waterloo train station and peopled by derelicts late at night.
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The park was swarming with students and drug dealers, tourists and derelicts.