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tract house

n. (context US English) Any of many houses, of a similar (if not identical) plan and design, built on a tract of land

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tract house

n. one of many houses of similar design constructed together on a tract of land

Usage examples of "tract house".

He bought a nice three-bedroom tract house in a good middle-class neighborhood.

LeBay had kept his small tract house, and he had kept his 1958 Plymouth.

Larry and Stu were in the living room of a small Table Mesa tract house.

Dick Vollman, Chip Hobart, and sixteen-year-old Tony Donahue sat in a breezeway half a block up from Larry's tract house, passing a bottle of Canadian Club back and forth, chasing it with warm Seven-Up.

If I was an artist, why was I so happy with such ordinary pleasures, a wife I loved, children who delighted me, a cheap tract house in the suburbs?

The man looked around, clearly admiring the size and location of what was really a fairly ordinary tract house by American standards.

The same man -- often no more than 30 years old -- might have been living in a prefabricated tract house in the States, but in Rio he will live on Copacabana beach with two maids, servants' quarters, and a balcony overlooking the sea.

Part of it, of course, was that he had been gone overnight, and Roscoe and Kinta had been in the house, and they had -- unintentionally -- slightly altered the order of things, so that now Edward saw the house not as this perfect pattern in which he usually lived, but as a fifties tract house with low ceilings, dirty walls, cramped rooms, badly painted moldings, stained carpeting, and a generally run-down look.

She lived in a tract house in East Brunswick, in a pleasant neighborhood filled with middle-income families.