noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
industrial
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Five years later the industrial wasteland is a thriving mini-Docklands with homes, offices, roads, Victorian-style bridges and modern services.
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Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out on an industrial wasteland the ramshackle legacy of Darlington's past.
urban
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Two features of this succession on urban wasteland are particularly interesting.
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The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares.
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Down the mean streets of the urban wasteland treads psychiatrist Trevor Turner, looking for the tell-tale signs.
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What the mass of urban wasteland needs lies between these extremes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a barren desert wasteland
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Detectives discovered the man's body dumped on wasteland near the railway.
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Saturday morning television is still the vast wasteland it was 10 years ago.
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The area down by the docks is just a wasteland .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is said that the seafloor is a desert, a vast and uniform wasteland , all but devoid of life.
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The £35,000 classic was found abandoned on wasteland without a scratch.