English abbreviation dictionary - nimby
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1.
~ n not in my backyard; someone who does not want a particular activity or building near their home - nimby adj (nimby attitudes) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2.
see nimby NIMBY see nimby NIMBY also Nimby, NIMBY If you say that someone has a nimby attitude, you are criticizing them because they do not want something such as a new road, housing estate, or prison built near to where they live. Nimby is an abbreviation for ‘not in my backyard’. (INFORMAL) ...the usual nimby protests from local residents. ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: not in my backyard Date: 1980 opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable (as a prison or incinerator) in one's neighborhood • ~ism noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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- acronym for not in my back yard, 1980, Amer.Eng., supposedly coined by Walter Rodgers of the American Nuclear Society. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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