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waterfront
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noun
- the area of a town or city alongside a body of water, such as a harbour or dockyard
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of waterfront1
Idioms and Phrases
see cover the field (waterfront) .Example Sentences
“These are both areas with very low land elevations that could be impacted by a small increase in waterfront flooding,†the geological survey said.
Even on the waterfront, where several pockets of homes remained — the devastation appeared to have occurred in clumps.
The idea resembles an earlier scheme proposed by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to build luxury properties on Gaza's "very valuable" waterfront.
A lack of infrastructure, affordable housing and community attitudes tend to lock ordinary Australians out of waterfront areas, while those natural assets are often used by those lucky enough to live there.
Since he won the election Nov. 5, the habitat for hangers-on has been Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s waterfront Palm Beach playground in Florida, a state famously hospitable to swamps.
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