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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
residential
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a housing/residential complex (=for people to live in)
▪ Architects designed the residential complexes near the beach.
a residential area (=a part of a town where people live)
▪ They had a large house in a pleasant residential area.
a residential district (=where people live rather than work)
▪ It is one of Paris’ most exclusive residential districts.
a residential street (=with houses, not shops)
▪ a quiet residential street
residential care (=for ill or old people in a place where they stay)
▪ They used the money to pay for residential care.
residential care
residential home
residential property (=buildings that people live in)
▪ The site proposed for the factory is too near to residential property.
residential treatment facility
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ Readers who book residential accommodation will be entitled to £20 discount per person, per night.
▪ There is even a school of thought that says some 1960s office blocks outside prime areas should be refurbished as residential accommodation.
▪ Middlesbrough woman Gwen Lamb was shocked to discover that anyone can offer residential accommodation to the most vulnerable in society.
▪ For example, there is nothing about people in residential accommodation but several pages on the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds.
▪ Inevitably with the rapid expansion of the past few years the University is experiencing difficulties in providing sufficient academic as well as residential accommodation.
▪ An occupier of residential accommodation at a rent for a term is either a lodger or a tenant.
▪ When welfare departments were created in 1948, their major concern as regards old people was with residential accommodation.
▪ Relatively few are in hospitals or residential accommodation.
area
▪ Provide bottle, paper and can banks within residential areas.
▪ The markets and older residential areas of the city were equally unscathed by modern trends.
▪ The opportunities for close, long-term relationships are greater than is usually the case in a large, metropolitan, residential area.
▪ The Association has recently purchased a large, detached house in a residential area of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
▪ The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
▪ Kalkara is still quaint in many ways, but as a residential area it is mixed.
▪ Easily Accessible: Craiglynn is situated in a quiet residential area but within a short bus ride of the centre of Aberdeen.
care
▪ Thus Southwark, which exports 70% of adults needing residential care, will not receive adequate funding to pay for future placements.
▪ If local authorities do seek to improve their residential care facilities, what form might this take?
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ The overwhelming generalist nature of social work education also fails residential care.
▪ Third, the move towards compulsory admissions to residential care should be discouraged in favour of voluntary and planned admissions.
▪ The lack of a corresponding vibrant philosophical base fro residential care has impoverished it.
▪ Yet for many old people the meeting of basic needs in residential care is problematic.
▪ These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care.
community
▪ As part of a concerted effort to reinvigorate residential communities, 2, 000 new houses have sprung up since 1990.
course
▪ The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses, organised for college students and Fairbridge.
▪ Agreed, the weekend trade is down but residential courses have been up 10% and day courses up 50% this year.
▪ The residential course will be a combination of talks, demonstrations and hands-on experience.
▪ The focus is on school-leavers from Bury who have attended a three work residential course in Cumbria.
▪ The Academy of Culinary Arts launched its first residential course programme.
▪ In fact I hear that several Outward Bound schools are offering fortnight-long residential courses on the safe removal of the fleecy top.
▪ They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
▪ Extensions to four-star hotel standards are due to be completed by October with 96 beds for residential courses.
customer
▪ But the company sees state regulatory rules shaping up unfavorably for it, as a would-be competitor for residential customers.
▪ Instead, they pay basic long-distance rates, which are the highest rates a residential customer can pay, the study says.
▪ It was a well-kept secret that the old system was biased in favor of residential customers.
▪ The city has about 15,500 residential customers and 2,800 commercial customers.
▪ The commercial customers expected to see the same range of increase as residential customers, between 9 percent and 11 percent.
development
▪ The application features a superstore, petrol filling station, car park and residential development.
▪ Developers who are counting on putting in a huge residential development are fighting the plan.
▪ The above and similar restrictions will of course affect both the value of the land and its viability for residential development.
▪ Y., residential development much sooner than expected.
▪ The only remaining obstacles are located at Wester Hailes, a residential development on the western outskirts of Edinburgh.
▪ It has written its growth management plan to specifically exclude residential development around Lego Park.
▪ The population has remained between 300 to 400, as the village has never been designated for large residential development.
▪ But the rapid leapfrogging residential development of Phoenix has resulted in benefits for some.
district
▪ He walked south-eastwards from the River, uphill towards the wealthy residential district where Taheb lived.
▪ He runs the only supermarket-modest but well-stocked-in Bunker Hill's residential district.
▪ Fresh paint has been splashed everywhere, even in residential districts.
facility
▪ A residential facility will remain at the Countess of Chester Hospital for people requiring in-patient treatment.
▪ They are housed in small community-based residential facilities.
▪ There are currently an estimated 45 day-centres in Flanders, many of which are linked to residential facilities.
▪ Twenty-four track, residential facility just over an hour's drive from Dublin.
home
▪ Some residential homes are run by Lothian Regional Council.
▪ The Tribunal hears appeals by prospective residential home owners against local authorities' refusal to register.
▪ Finding your feet Many residential homes are almost like large families.
▪ The first few days in a residential home can be very frightening for many elderly people.
▪ Most choose to go to residential homes rather than to those of their children.
▪ However, many authorities lack separate provision for the younger disabled, who have to join old people in residential homes.
▪ This, of course, excludes those people living in communal establishments such as prisons, hospitals or residential homes.
neighborhood
▪ Dangerous wastes will be deposited by error in the rivers and the dump sites that endanger residential neighborhoods.
▪ Affordable neighborhoods A large number of residential neighborhoods still are floundering.
▪ Several residential neighborhoods have seen increases in robberies, burglaries, street violence and domestic abuse, the spokesmen said.
▪ His second in command, another Syndicate expert, was assigned to a station in the quietest residential neighborhood in the city.
▪ Last July, he moved into a house in a residential neighborhood populated by many families with young children.
▪ We must have White schools, White residential neighborhoods and recreation areas.
project
▪ Evidence shows that some residential projects are coming under financial strain as money and clients dry up.
▪ City planners also report sev eral residential projects in the works.
▪ Lenders were wary about downtown residential projects in a city that had never had them.
▪ Aside from residential projects, the firm also works on restaurants, stores and a synagogue.
property
▪ There has been no free market in residential property since the early years of this century.
▪ The Wangs and family members also own millions of dollars in real estate, including nine residential properties in Woodside.
▪ The dwellings will be so designed to provide a satisfactory level of privacy for adjoining residential properties. 3.
▪ Homeowners who want to sell their homes without a real estate agent can now advertise their residential properties free on the Internet.
▪ Saunders had a degree in psychiatry, but he was breaking the law by using residential property for the transaction of business.
▪ The residential prOperty tax assessment is based On a valuation set at 15 percent of fair market value.
▪ The proceeds of the issue will be used to buy up to 76 residential properties in Greenwich.
▪ In 1998, the residential property tax classification accounted for approximately 59 percent of the city's total tax capacity.
road
▪ Traffic calming is specifically directed at urban areas, particularly residential roads in our towns and villages.
▪ Prior to January 1984 Medway and Bridge Roads had been relatively quiet residential roads.
▪ Other residential roads are usually untreated, so that speeds are often high.
▪ Properties in this sought after residential road rarely become available, so view now!!!
school
▪ Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
▪ Therefore, the concerns raised do not apply necessarily or equally to all residential schools working with such children.
▪ As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.
▪ One of George's brothers was recently placed in a residential school for children with moderate learning difficulties as a weekly boarder.
▪ Ian Squires, severely autistic, returned to Islington in 1986 from a residential school where he'd been happy.
▪ Mrs Short: The way they were talking at that meeting George is going to residential school.
▪ This includes manning tutorials, marking and commenting on assignments, and helping with residential schools.
sector
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
service
▪ Social services provision for the mentally disordered is through the full range of social work, day care and residential services.
▪ Officials say residential service is a long-range possibility.
▪ There is at last discussion and pooling of ideas on how to make residential services accessible.
setting
▪ Daily encounters in residential settings underwent a major change because the needs of young people are different from those of children.
▪ Has he ever worked in a residential setting?
▪ Again it's 20 places in a residential setting.
▪ All these 4 projects are effectively providing residential settings so they are not community care in the most exciting way.
staff
▪ If residential staff can immediately encourage and welcome their continuing presence within the Home this eases some of the guilt.
▪ The residential staff are presented with an unenviable task.
▪ The father, so angered by the compulsory admission, became threatening and abusive to residential staff.
▪ And try as hard as they do, residential staff can never turn a residential establishment into a home.
▪ It was attended by workers with under fives, children's residential staff and Family Care Scheme staff and found very useful.
▪ However, normal work continued until mid-January, when short-term visits were suspended and the residential staff were withdrawn until April.
street
▪ The front door opened on to a residential street.
▪ The city is laid out with a main street every half mile, residential streets between.
▪ It is understandable: the child considers himself safe in the residential street and is inattentive on the way to school.
▪ But the more residential streets register high rates of occupancy.
▪ Despite these problems, two-thirds of the children consider the residential street to be safer than the customary street with pavement.
▪ This is so also for children, so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets.
▪ Within towns they would be little systems of shopping, business, industrial and residential streets.
▪ Extend traffic calming measures in residential streets.
treatment
▪ The introduction to the first five steps of the Anonymous Fellowships while in a residential treatment centre is only an introduction.
▪ Further residential treatment after hospitalization may be indicated.
▪ Do family members ever require residential treatment?
▪ However, community care -- from outpatient medicine refills to short-term residential treatment -- was voluntary.
▪ I propose a limit of three months' free residential treatment.
▪ But the wait for residential treatment averages 60 days, Katz said.
▪ Cost-cutters were warning that foster care and residential treatment were becoming budget-busters.
unit
▪ The 23 residential units in the hospital, are to upgraded.
▪ Six people registered in business offices at the Transamerica Pyramid, which has no residential units.
▪ I interviewed the student after she had worked in the residential unit for one year.
▪ However, none of the 200 residential units, planned alongside the 20 retail storefronts, have been built yet.
▪ Some residential units told Community Care of under-occupancy of beds which are normally heavily over-subscribed.
▪ The university is asking for permission to allow up to 700 residential units and a large commercial corner on the site.
▪ She wanted to stay where she was, at a specialist adolescent residential unit run by a consultant child psychiatrist.
▪ The city of Chula Vista collects from $ 2, 030 to $ 4, 375 per residential unit in park fees.
use
▪ But planning officials say the site isn't suitable for residential use.
▪ Gregory needs a zoning change on about four acres now designated for residential use.
▪ The council's Conservation Officer interested his colleagues in the Architect's Department in investigating possible residential use of the building.
▪ DeGrazia argues offices will be more compatible than the 20-units-per-acre residential uses which the plan currently allows.
▪ Next is Upton Mill, which has been converted for residential use.
▪ As traffic volumes increase, the demand for office and commercial developments, instead of residential uses, grows.
▪ The privately owned land is currently zoned for residential use and private stables.
weekend
▪ The rest of his mind clinically assessed the options that this residential weekend had suddenly thrown open to him.
▪ Preparatory lectures will give a theoretical perspective to a residential weekend at an outdoor centre.
▪ Group work continues on simulations and case studies during a residential weekend at Henley.
▪ Participants will also have the chance to go on a residential weekend.
▪ During this probationary term there have been two training Saturdays in South London and a residential weekend in Buckinghamshire.
▪ He had booked for the full residential weekend, as he did every time one was held.
worker
▪ The project's residential workers are not qualified therapists, though many have received external training on short courses.
▪ Further attempts at fostering were not tried, and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael's life.
▪ This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.
▪ Because the emphasis was on family placements, residential workers and families expected other plans to be made.
▪ In consequence residential workers may become the main caregivers for young people in residential care.
▪ They complained of frequent staff changes resulting in a lack of consistency between residential workers and inadequate control of the youngsters.
▪ Less rivalry and conflict appears to develop between parents and residential workers than between parents and foster-parents.
▪ The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a quiet residential neighborhood
▪ telephone services for residential and commercial customers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1998, the residential property tax classification accounted for approximately 59 percent of the city's total tax capacity.
▪ It is understandable: the child considers himself safe in the residential street and is inattentive on the way to school.
▪ The 23 residential units in the hospital, are to upgraded.
▪ Yearly tuition for residential students, as they were called, was $ 1, 600 in 1930.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Residential

Residential \Res`i*den""tial\ (-d?n"shal), a.

  1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town.

  2. Residing; residentiary. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
residential

1650s, "serving as a residence," from resident (n.) + -ial. Meaning "having to do with housing" is from 1856.

Wiktionary
residential

a. 1 Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places. 2 Used as a residence or by residents. 3 Of or pertaining to residency. n. A trip during which people temporarily live together.

WordNet
residential
  1. adj. used or designed for residence or limited to residences; "a residential hotel"; "a residential quarter"; "a residential college"; "residential zoning" [ant: nonresidential]

  2. of or relating to or connected with residence; "a residential requirement for the doctorate"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "residential".

In careful orientation to one another and to the whole were the large residential Sections connected and interlaced by the expressway and the localways.

The residential court was enclosed by expensive-looking stucco maisonettes, what the Americans referred to as townhouses, all of them topped with roofs of rounded green tile.

We left the overpass and moved down a concrete road through west Northolt, a residential suburb of the airport.

On the landward right side of the quai stood multistoried brick or stone residential buildings, and their inhabitants came outside or threw open their windows, even on this chill gray day, to get a better look at the circus procession.

Sitting at his terminals he can scan the world and control everything he touches, but now he is unshelled in front of a closed house on a deserted residential street in Palm Beach, Florida, and when he goes to the front door anything can happen.

Street of the Writhing Slave winds tortuously upward from the wharves, threading its narrow way through a commercial district upward towards a hilly residential district.

The German civilians had shown no sign of panic at the effect of those bombs that had landed in residential areas.

In 2380 it was home to just over a billion people, a centerless urban sprawl of factories and residential districts stretching for more than six hundred kilometers along the shore and up to three hundred inland.

This street paralleled Main, though it was narrower and darker, a quiet residential neighborhood with no houselights showing.

She lived in a residential area in Humble, a city between Kingwood and the northern environs of Houston.

THE HOME OF THE MURDERED Spyder Nielsen sat on the most coveted piece of residential property in all of Pit-kin County, Colorado.

Corazon on the residential and tourist world of Paloduro, third in prominence in the Solojo star system, inside a rented high school gymnasium, a battle raged in an altogether different dimension.

Whereas Paloduro was the most beautiful of the four planets, the center for tourism and the residential center of the system, another world, Dinero Grande, was the administrative and business center.

It was a one-way street, Caroline noted, very residential, with the lines of parked cars on both sides leaving only a narrow lane open for traffic.

He never left it on a residential street, understanding the insomnia of the elderly and the late-night revels of the young.