Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context British English) A housing estate consisting, entirely or principally, of council housing
Usage examples of "council estate".
There is also a big before and after photo, on the left a young man in chinos who a market researcher might put in the B2 socio-economic group, self-employed graphic designer or something similar, and on the right the young man is now done up as a woman from a Bradford council estate who has had a hard life on account of her daughter being pregnant and on crack and who sings at the Trades and Labour Club on Fridays to keep her spirits up.
The WPC had cornered him in a stairwell on a council estate and he'd jumped at her with a penknife.
The new council estate at Twitbury Saint Mary now merged with Netherbury council houses to cover ahl the hand that had in former times proyided a hiving in farming for the village clustered about the ancient church.
Within a day a portrait of the deceased as he might have looked in life had been produced, and by Wednesday a woman living on a council estate south of the river had identified him as her next-door neighbor, Mr.
So James Foster had waylaid Beth on her way home from school with all the precision of a carefully planned military operation, He'd followed her, found out the route she took when she got off the school bus, a short cut across the fields to the council estate.
Home was his modest three bedroom semi-detached house on a council estate in Northwich.
Further along, these gave way to newer houses and the symmetry of a council estate began to assert itself.
Something of Goddard's life is already known to him, for the third member of the trio lives on the council estate which is on the route to school.
Within a couple of years all these streets would have been demolished to make way for a new council estate.