inner city

noun

: the usually older, poorer, and more densely populated central section of a city
inner-city adjective

Examples of inner city in a Sentence

The mayor is trying to attract new businesses to the inner city.
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Democrats have the elites (Big tech, Hollywood, media, sports, Wall Street, etc.), and the inner cities. For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024 Hip-hop is the rose that grew from the concrete of poverty and deprivation in the inner city. Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024 The king reported opposed the previous British government's policy of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda for processing and set up The Prince's Trust, his most successful project, in the hope of helping disadvantaged people in the U.K.'s inner cities. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024 These efforts came to explosive climax in a series of riots that tore through the United Kingdom’s inner cities in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Kenan Malik, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2015 See all Example Sentences for inner city 

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of inner city was in 1958

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“Inner city.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inner%20city. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

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inner city

noun
: the usually older and more heavily populated central section of a city
inner-city adjective

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