noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a city dweller (= someone who lives in a city )
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In the summer, city dwellers escape to the sea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rural
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The displacement of large numbers of rural dwellers to urban areas has increased overcrowding in urban schools.
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But if gender factors continue to be ignored, the majority of rural dwellers may find themselves little better off.
urban
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Furthermore, the causes of fuelwood scarcity must seem remote and diffuse to the average urban dweller .
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What the farmer gets is what the urban dweller pays minus transportation and distribution costs.
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The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.
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The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers , but real estate developers.
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Indeed, Cairenes are among the most resourceful of urban dwellers .
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Census takers historically have undercounted urban dwellers , particularly blacks and ethnic minorities, they argued.
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Dogtags were distributed among urban dwellers to make identification of the dead easier in the aftermath of what seemed inevitable.
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As federal and state support for the cities diminishes, poor urban dwellers will become even more destitute and marginalized.
■ NOUN
cave
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Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection.
city
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But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
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Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller .
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Far from being desperately poor peasants, the squatters were clearly city dwellers .
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Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers , most of them black or Hispanic.
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This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller .
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Hospital workers once alert for the sound became inured to it, like city dwellers to the sound of sirens.
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It is the dilemma of city dwellers , of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
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Police stood at highways and railroad stations to halt the exodus of thousands of city dwellers .
forest
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But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions.
slum
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Answers to these questions have important implications for slum dwellers , whose only local source of medical care may be private doctors.
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Half the populations of Delhi, Nairobi, and Manila are slum dwellers .
town
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Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers .
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As was to be expected, town dwellers were better informed than rural people.
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Nobles were urban, but outside the areas of disseminated settlement the peasants and farmers were likewise town dwellers .
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Unlike many town dwellers , farmers can at least eat well.
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To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.
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It is suited to town dwellers .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller .
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Census takers historically have undercounted urban dwellers, particularly blacks and ethnic minorities, they argued.
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Furthermore, the causes of fuelwood scarcity must seem remote and diffuse to the average urban dweller .
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It's just hard for your Earth dwellers to conjure these all out of a hat in the midst of frustration.
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Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers.
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Slum dwellers would filter through into better stock, or be rehoused by local authorities in new estates.
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Urban dwellers might find that the bright city lights will wash out the faintly glowing comet tail.