slum
ചാള
definition
verb
rich tourists slumming among the quaintly dangerous natives
spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.
noun
However, there is still a large segment of the population which lives in urban slums and poor rural areas without electricity or running water.
a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
translation of 'slum'
noun
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example
'slum' dwellers
But ironically the former 'slum' houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents.
'slum' areas
he moved from a two-room 'slum' into a local authority house
It is like an inner-city 'slum' and the street cleaning leaves a lot to be desired.
The appalling social situation in Iran has been highlighted by recent reports of protest marches in working class urban areas and 'slum' districts.
businessmen are having to 'slum' it in aircraft economy class seats
businessmen are having to 'slum' it in aircraft economy class seats
It made my dorm building look like a 'slum' , that was for sure.
the area was fast becoming a 'slum' for the destitute
Begun in April 2003, it is a non-profit organisation with a mission to unleash the potential of the 'slum' , street and orphaned children of urban India.
There is also a primary school at the premises run by the committee for the poor and 'slum' dwellers in the locality.
She ended up living and working with Hong Kong's most despised and poorest inhabitants in a 'slum' known as the Walled City.
The best home the family of seven can afford is this wood shack in a 'slum' .
As part of the activities of the trust we have started free classes for girl students from local government schools from a nearby 'slum' who come from poor families.
As you can see, the Red Party has a lot of natural support in inner city 'slum' areas like this.
Blunkett's conclusion was that ‘if you live in a 'slum' in a high-rise building and you are on your own with three children, the idea of liberty and freedom means nothing’.
Its control of poor 'slum' areas and inner cities resulted from the chaos that was brought about by the occupation; it was not itself the cause of the chaos.
I think that we will live here for maybe 12 months and then move elsewhere leaving the house as a 'slum' and make a start again a little further down the road.
These streets are the marketplace for garrulous gamine Eliza, who ekes out a living selling flowers to wealthy 'slummers' .
In his later articles, Brown increasingly referred to the urban problems of 'slums' , blighted areas and suburban sprawl.
Historic houses were being labelled 'slums' just because they were old.
Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes 'slumming' in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia.
He paints a vivid picture of Victorian and Edwardian 'slummers' and the social and sexual politics that impelled their urban journeys.
He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a 'slummy' quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.
Do wealthy Americans simply feel it's more acceptable to go 'slumming' out of sight at the website rather than inside the store?
It's always a pleasure when a museum 'slums it' with a pop culture show.
Okay, exactly when did America accept its 'slumminess' and start to revel in it!
And the scene escalates, people are rising from their chairs, the duly deputized representatives of barroom order show up… and the 'slummers' get bounced right back out into the night.
Many city dwellers live in 'slums' and tenement buildings
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