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tower block

[ tou-er ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. a high-rise building.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tower block1

First recorded in 1965–70
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In Bangkok, where soft soil made the shaking more intense, an unfinished tower block collapsed, burying many who had been working at the site.

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Worapat Sukthai, deputy police chief of Bang Sue district, told the French news agency AFP that he could hear the sound of people screaming under the tower block collapse.

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The external cladding was removed from five tower blocks following fire safety inspections in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017.

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Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb paid tribute to Prosper's family, whose noise as they were being killed alerted neighbours in their tower block in the Marsh Farm area of Luton.

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The government will fund the removal but because the couple have more than three properties they too are non-qualifying leaseholders and will have to pay towards the costs of making the tower block fire-safe.

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