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US
/ˌdipɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən, dɪˌpɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /diːpˌɒpjʊlˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /diːpˌɒpjʊlˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)
How To Use depopulation In A Sentence
- Significant residual levels of Brucellosis remain however and aggressive depopulation and extended rest period policies continue to be applied.
- One strong contender is Ilopango in El Salvador, whose eruption caused major depopulation in Maya lowlands around this time. Weatherwatch: British summers can be like the Dark Ages
- Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay.
- They seem to envisage an irreversible downward spiral leading to the depopulation of Australia.
- Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay.
- Research has shown that as many as 24 percent of hens suffer broken bones following commercial "depopulation," or removal from their cages. Michael Markarian: Congress Can Spare Taxpayers and Animals
- During the first half of the current decade, the pace of depopulation actually increased in many places.
- A remarkable quarter-century of productivity growth followed, accompanied by a low income-tax rate for corporations, encouragement of education, moderate wage levels, shrewdly selective incentives to attract foreign companies - not the regional-development pork-barrelling of the kind familiar to Canadians - and reversal of the long-term depopulation that went back to the potato famine of 1845-1849. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Yet the Third Reich's policies also involved rural depopulation and anticlerical violence.
- They seem to envisage an irreversible downward spiral leading to the depopulation of Australia.