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housing estate
/ˈhaʊzɪŋ ɪˈsteɪt/HOUS·ing es·TATE
A planned residential area with many houses built together, often by the same developer.
Examples
“The new housing estate has playgrounds and a small shop.”
“Many young families moved into the housing estate last year.”
“Housing estates are common on the outskirts of large towns.”
Band 8 sentence
“The council built a housing estate on previously unused land to tackle the local shortage of family homes.”
Collocations
- new housing estate
- local housing estate
Word family
Common mistakes
housing area→housing estate
a housing estates→a housing estate
Say it for a higher band
5housing area→6residential area→7+housing estate
Synonyms
residential development
Easily confused
residential area
“They prefer living in a residential area rather than an industrial zone.”
housing development
“The housing development will provide hundreds of new homes.”
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