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in the neighbourhood of Definition


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neighbourhood
neighborhood
noun
    1. A district or locality.
      Thesaurus: environs, community, suburb, block, vicinity, locality, district, quarter, precinct, ward, area, section, zone, confines, surroundings.
    2. The inhabitants of a district; the local community.
    3. The area near something or someone.
    4. math.
      All the points that surround a given point or curve in a specified degree of closeness.
Idiom: in the neighbourhood of
    Roughly.
      Example: It cost in the neighbourhood of £500
      Thesaurus: close to, about, in the proximity of, approximately, more or less.


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