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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tract house" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a type of residential house that is part of a development where many similar houses are built in a planned and repetitive manner. Example: "She grew up in a typical tract house in the suburbs, surrounded by rows of identical homes."
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tract house
noun
Any of many houses, of a similar (if not identical) plan and design, built on a tract of land
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She had a tract house in mind.
"I was raised in a tract house, Frank.
"I was sitting in my little tract house," he added.
At the low end is a $289,000 three-bedroom tract house in a subdivision.
Holmes says that he moved into Addie's small tract house two years ago.
"The bus has too many Negroes," he observes on the ride to his suburban tract house.
Think of squat concrete schools, treeless tract house developments and the dark and trashy underworld of the highway overpass.
Her father, Jack Hall, was a civil engineer; home was a Santa Ana tract house with frugal casserole dinners.
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Many residents live in tract-house neighborhoods with names like the Mesa, the Willows and the Trails.
Long Islanders are not used to hearing developers deplore the barren anonymity of their tract-house lives.
Mr. Goodman's new character even has Dan's old plaid shirt and jeans, tract-house kitchen and living room.
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