I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a slum district (= where poor people live in very bad conditions )
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Rats were running all over the slum districts.
snow/land/slum etc clearance
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flooding caused by forest clearance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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As the city slumbers, a slum area in a remote corner of the metropolis goes up in flames.
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It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas .
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Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around.
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Humorous description of the appearance and the denizens of this slum area of London.
child
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Most slum children do not go to school, are very poor, and speak only Hindi.
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None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims, particularly malnourished slum children , who are the most susceptible.
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Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea?
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Ragged slum children , singing their absurd street rhymes.
city
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In the sequel, Whoopi will play a nun who helps a gospel choir in a city slum .
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Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance, not in social welfare.
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And what offends against it is the mill chimney and the steam engine, factory-labour and the city slum .
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But land reform could create the jobs which poor people from rural areas seek in city slums .
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We no longer allow the weak or foolish or unfortunate to perish in the gutters of a city slum .
clearance
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But the end of slum clearance came more with a change in values: away from demolition, to conservation and rehabilitation.
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However, slum clearance and replacement was for the poor.
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It also extended them to cover land affected by new town designation orders, slum clearance orders and new street orders.
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Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance , not in social welfare.
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On a big estate - slum clearance - in the North.
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Elsewhere slum clearance activity was much more piecemeal and avoided spectacular set pieces.
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The Chamberlain Act also provided for subsidising slum clearance schemes.
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Finally, dissatisfaction with housing conditions produced schemes for slum clearance or improvement and substantial house-building programmes.
dweller
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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 .
■ VERB
live
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The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre.
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The distant workers who supported this wealth lived in noisome slums .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I grew up in the East London slums.
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Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses.
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He resumed his familiar whirlwind visits to the Lima slums, feeding on the energy of friendly crowds.
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In the slums you can now hear the children singing.
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Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum .
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The overall effect was that the world's largest and richest city of the time contained the world's most extensive slums.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She made it clear that she was just slumming for a while in this business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Perhaps they were also saying - you can not go slumming, not in New York.
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With other upper-middle-class young men who were studying art, Toulouse-Lautrec began slumming it in bohemian Montmartre.
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You just can not go slumming, because slumming pretends that slums aren't real.