housing development

noun

: a group of individual dwellings or apartment houses typically of similar design that are usually built and sold or leased by one management

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Pulte has previously gotten approval for and built a number of other housing developments in Aurora. R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025 Trump tariffs live updates: EU OKs countermeasures, China hits US with 84% tariff Leonard Windham, a Raleigh area realtor, gave ABC News a tour of a new housing development in Youngsville -- an up-and-coming town just 20 miles north of Raleigh. Briana Stewart, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025 Stuck in limbo Image Omar Robinson had lived nearly all his life in a public housing development in Brooklyn. Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 Two decades later, most of the city’s high-rise public housing developments are gone, but the transformative second half of the project remains unrealized. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housing development

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First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of housing development was in 1939

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“Housing development.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20development. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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