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Abandoned, forsaken; given up by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.
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Airchive.com has everything from old timetables to derelict planes.
Groups of young men, boys really, wearing bandanas and hoodies, stand on street corners next to derelict buildings, staring at anyone passing, and occasionally throwing projectiles at cars.
There is just one thing holding developers back: we need access to derelict buildings and vacant land in order to build and create new homes.
He thought of himself as "a modernist – almost a vandalist" for preferring the sight of a spotless food factory to "derelict abbeys" and "crumbling cathedrals".
If you are from down South you won't understand the feeling in the community at what she has done to us," he said, as the mannequin was taken to derelict land behind a pub and ceremonially torched.
The area, which borders the port and gets its name from a British fort established there in the 1860s, had long been home to derelict buildings, tacky tourist shops and dingy strip clubs.
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She said the idea was to use derelict sites to create new woodland, with some trees being planted on former agricultural sites owned by the Woodland Trust and local authorities.
Some have been reused as housing for animals or as storehouses; others have been abandoned to lie derelict due to the cost of removing them.
The pro-Mubarak group scattered, some taking cover in the entrance to a derelict building, emerging to lob burning missiles at the advancing protesters.
And we are announcing pilot projects today to encourage local authorities to bring derelict sites back into use and build more new housing for rent.
In an effort to establish where Voyager is, the Hazard Team is sent to a derelict ship where power is still functioning to download the derelict's database.
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