depopulation

[ US /ˌdipɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən, dɪˌpɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /diːpˌɒpjʊlˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)
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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.
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