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Someone who objects to something being sited in their own locality
Answer for the clue "Someone who objects to something being sited in their own locality ", 5 letters:
nimby
Alternative clues for the word nimby
- Local protest acronym
- Selfish social outlook, for short
- Certain objector acronymically
- Somewhere else and I might not object!
- "Anywhere else!" acronym
- Acronym used to protest potential environmental hazards nearby
- Pejorative initialism said for those who want wind farms, only nowhere near their homes
- "Keep that out of our town!" acronym
- Modern political acronym
Word definitions for nimby in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acronym for not in my back yard , 1980, American English, supposedly coined by Walter Rodgers of the American Nuclear Society.
Usage examples of nimby.
Nimby get even a little curious about what human love and bleep was all about?
Then she sat on Nimby dragon, and Tweeter perched on her hair, and she invoked the crime against nature.
Then Chena did the next, and so on, until only Nimby and Jim were left outside.
It was worse for Nimby than for Chlorine, because as a Demon he had not had natural functions, and in manform he had simply used magic to abate those he didn't care for.