Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families alt. Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families
Usage examples of "inner-city".
An oversight committee of citizens will be appointed by the Metro Commission, to make sure that the monies are spent only on voter-approved projects, and that beachfront cabanas don't get priority over inner-city gyms.
They viewed Vanessa'a intelligence as an act of willful disobedience against a school that wanted only for its students to have clear skin, pliant demeanors, and no overly inner-city desire for elaborately constructed sports sneakers.
I was no Pollyanna when I came here, knew an inner-city hospital would always be struggling to balance the books.
They knew his word was good and that he never signed the affidavit on a service he didn't completelike the Belle Isle Bridge servers, guys who were known to drop a summons in the Detroit River (or a trash can) if locating the defendant appeared too difficult, or if it took them into a rough, inner-city neighborhood.
This was, of course, Silicon Valley, home of slackers and hackers, and it wasn't unusual to stop in Starbucks for a vente skim latte and be waited on by a polite teenager with a dozen body piercings, a shaved head and an outfit like inner-city gangsta's.
Ten years later Sernyl would be known primarily by its street names - hog, crystal, DOA, angel dust, PCP - and emerge as the main recreational drug of the inner-city ghettos.