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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
built-up
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a built-up area (=with a lot of buildings close together)
▪ New development will not be allowed outside the existing built-up area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ Try to see five miles ahead on a country road and at least two to three hundred yards in a built-up area.
▪ Under normal circumstances barred owls do not frequent built-up areas.
▪ On passage, and sometimes in winter, Water Rails may occur in built-up areas.
▪ In built-up areas, the problem is cars and street lights.
▪ If parking is difficult in a built-up area it may be better to go by public transport.
▪ Councils can also infill existing built-up areas and revitalise inner urban areas.
▪ At each period new houses and streets have been added on the margins of the built-up area.
▪ In built-up areas, for example, special slow-reacting catalytic surfaces will automatically enforce the speed limit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He tugs one leg up and examines the built-up shoe.
▪ In built-up areas, the problem is cars and street lights.
▪ It gathered speed and raced towards the built-up complexes.
▪ On passage, and sometimes in winter, Water Rails may occur in built-up areas.
▪ She garnished her built-up Trifle with strips of bright currant jelly, crystallised sweetmeats or flowers.
▪ The closed, trusting eyes were surrounded by scars and small mounds of built-up skin.
▪ Try to see five miles ahead on a country road and at least two to three hundred yards in a built-up area.
▪ Under normal circumstances barred owls do not frequent built-up areas.
Wiktionary
built-up

a. 1 Made of sections, one on top of the other 2 (context of an area of land English) Having buildings, especially having residences 3 (context British English) (''of an area of land'') Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit alt. 1 Made of sections, one on top of the other 2 (context of an area of land English) Having buildings, especially having residences 3 (context British English) (''of an area of land'') Having street lights and therefore subject to a 30 mph speed limit

WordNet
built-up

adj. peopled with settlers; "the built-up areas"

Usage examples of "built-up".

The MSR went through built-up areas of population, three or four airfields, and several pumping stations for water, which we could take for granted would be defended by troops.

Traffic would be in the form of transports to and from Jordan, military transport going to airfields, and local militia in the built-up areas.

They offered work to me in the built-up platform, where I worked a time until a stupid idiot director late realized too much which he needed some extras for a scene that was filming in the back lot of the study.

We looked down on the lights of Abu Kamal and Krabilah, the two built-up areas that straddled the border.

There were built-up fabrics, called Charlottes, caky externally, pulpy within.

The Goons were living weapons built for fighting in built-up areas -- not very intelligent, certainly not as efficient as cyberweapons, but loyal and dependable and viciously fast.

His left leg was shorter than his right, but with the aid of a built-up shoe he walked with only a slight limp, and although his neck did incline sharply toward the right, as if to give his body a compensating balance, it did not prevent him from doing what he loved most: reading the shelves of great books he had acquired at Princeton.

At lower levels, rising pockets of heat from the built-up areas bumped the aeroplane about like a iuppet, and to enormous heights great heaps of cumulo-nimbus cloud were boiling up all round the horizon.

To the north of the built-up area were Government Wharf and Government House, now the Japanese headquarters.

The honkey was there in front of the built-up chrome bar on top of the front wheel guard, and then the honkey was not there.

At lower levels, rising pockets of heat from the built-up areas bumped the- aeroplane about like a iuppet, and to enormous heights great heaps of cumulo-nimbus cloud were boiling up all round the horizon.

They were androgynous figures in black, thigh-length, platform boots and short coats with built-up, tuck-and-roll shoulders.

Not only houses and cars were on fire, the wooded tongues of ridgeland between the built-up areas had caught as well, and smoke was drifting in billowing clouds.

They also quite frequently chose to mingle rock-hewn and built-up structures—as in the case of the tomb of Khent-Khawes, a supposed Queen of Menkaure, which consists of a natural outcropping sculpted in pyramidial form surmounted by a curious sarcophagus-shaped temple.

It was long enough since sundown that most of the built-up ambient heat from the ground and the rock slab door had radiated away.