noun
a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management
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they live in the new housing development
• Hypernyms: ↑development
• Hyponyms: ↑housing project, ↑public housing
• Part Holonyms: ↑residential district, ↑residential area, ↑community
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noun, pl ⋯ -ments [count]
US : a group of houses that are built near each other and sold or rented by one owner — called also (Brit) housing estate
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an area in which a large number of houses or flats/apartments are planned and built together at the same time
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They live on a housing estate.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.