Red-zone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Red-zone is a verb meaning (Christchurch, New Zealand) To categorize as too damaged to repair, and requiring the owners to vacate (a property).
Meaning
(Christchurch, New Zealand) To categorize as too damaged to repair, and requiring the owners to vacate (a property).
Example Sentences
His house in the Loop was red-zoned.
And in the event their land is red-zoned, at least they know they will ultimately get a new house under their AMI insurance policy.
As a result of severe and recurrent liquefaction damage, and the infeasibility of timely and effective land repair, more than 7000 residential properties in Christchurch were red-zoned (designated as currently uneconomic to repair) and purchased by central government at a cost exceeding NZ$1.6 billion.
Word Forms
- red-zones
- red-zoning
- red-zoned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include condemn, renovict, unzone, downzone, devastate, decant.
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