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    slum
    /slʌm/

    noun

    • 1. a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people: "inner-city slums"

    verb

    • 1. spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes: informal "he bought some second-hand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged"

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SlumSlum - Wikipedia

    A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1] .

  3. SLUM definition: 1. a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: 2. a very untidy or dirty place: 3. to…. Learn more.

  4. definition of slums, which is part of the Census and NSSO definitions, is absent in the definitions adopted by State laws which do not place a limit on the number of households for the purpose of identifying a slum.

  5. Building the right definition of a slum is key to properly understand and tackle the problem of these unsafe informal settlements. Before looking at what a slum is, let’s review the facts behind the growing global housing crisis: 1.6 billion people live without adequate shelter. 1 in 7 people on the planet currently lives in a slum.

  6. : to visit slums especially out of curiosity. broadly : to go somewhere or do something that might be considered beneath one's station sometimes used with it. slumming it in budget hotels. slummer noun. Examples of slum in a Sentence. Noun He grew up in the slums of New York. Verb He sometimes likes to go slumming in bars around the city.

  7. This paper presents four different slum definitions used in India alone, demonstrating that assessments of both the distribution and extent of urban deprivation depends on the way in which it is characterized, as does slum dwelling’s association with common child health indicators.

  8. SLUM meaning: 1. a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: 2. a very untidy or dirty place: 3. to…. Learn more.