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is slums
noun
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
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Tour guides and chipper government officials like to use the euphemism "temporary cottages," but a better word is "slums".
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She is slumming here.
She doesn't condescend to the situations or suggest that she is slumming.
The action-movie star is slumming by doing a Broadway play.
When we meet her she is slumming it at her uncle's estate agency, showing prospective buyers around properties.
But is "slum tourism" profiting off the poor?
Therefore, the third policy priority explored in this paper is slum upgrading to improve the living standards of slum dwellers and mitigate urban poverty.
For the orphaned of Mumbai, however, the greater insult of the film is "slum," not "dog".
Everything else was slums.
Many of these now pricey places were slums just 30 years ago.
And they were Jerry built, badly designed and they were slums again in waiting.
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