antidevelopment

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English

Alternative forms

  • anti-development

Etymology

From anti- +‎ development.

Adjective

antidevelopment (not comparable)

  1. (politics) Opposed to development, particularly the development of neighborhoods or land
    • 1988 September 16, Michael Miner, “"Politics of Poverty": Why Did John McCarron Do That?”, in Chicago Reader:
      The problematic notion in all of this is that of antidevelopment forces working in concert.

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