disaster area
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]disaster area (plural disaster areas)
- An area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.
- Much of the central Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area after hurricane Katrina.
- (also figuratively) An area that looks like one that has suffered a natural disaster.
- Your room is a disaster area.
- 2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe[1]:
- And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds.
Translations
[edit]area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster
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