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council estate (plural council estates)

  1. (UK) A housing estate consisting, entirely or principally, of council housing.
    Synonyms: council housing estate, (Scotland) scheme
    • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
      A person who has grown up in a council housing estate is likely to be—indeed, visibly is—more middle class in outlook than a person who has grown up in a slum.
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