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US
/ˈnɪmbi/
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[ UK /nˈɪmbi/ ]
[ UK /nˈɪmbi/ ]
NOUN
- someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard
How To Use NIMBY In A Sentence
- But that is what we are asking of the women, and that is what makes this bill not only a Nimby bill but also one that states that what is good for the goose is not good for the gander.
- The decision-making is bedevilled by what Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens calls "reverse nimbyism", which "decrees the NHS offers an 'everything everywhere' service and local hospitals are deemed sacrosanct". Radical change in the NHS is essential
- The consultation also found there are not enough incinerators or anaerobic digesters to turn food waste into energy because of difficulty with planning permission or "nimbyism" and a lack of funding. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- The great majority of councillors' time is devoted to the interminable squabbling amongst Nimby neighbours about development applications.
- A combination of nimby-ism and spending cuts makes that unlikely. House prices have nowhere to go but down
- David Orr, the chief executive of the National Housing Federation, blames "our 'nimby' culture and planning system" for having "choked off new supply at levels far below what might otherwise have been provided and continue to do so. Are we better off renting?
- The usual nimby argument implies we are against all development. Times, Sunday Times
- The spectre of nimbyism will make it even harder to meet targets, she said. Localism is making housing shortage worse, warns new report
- The usual nimby argument implies we are against all development. Times, Sunday Times
- Says one senior FORTUNE 500 executive: "In the U.S., NIMBY [not in my backyard] is still the order of the day, whereas in China it's more like IMBY. They build where they want, when they want.