Pepper-pot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pepper-pot is a noun meaning (UK, New Zealand) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
Meaning
(UK, New Zealand) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
Example Sentences
Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house.
Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos".
In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move.
Word Forms
- pepper-pots
- pepper-potting
- pepper-potted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pickle, pooter, spot, picquet, penny, nickel.
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