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Definition of Blockbusting
1. Noun. (American English) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup ¹
2. Adjective. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blockbusting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blockbusting
Literary usage of Blockbusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Solving Crime Problems in Residential Neighborhoods: Comprehensive Changes by Judith D. Feins (1997)
"As Austin underwent rapid property turnover and racial change, its character
changed, with disorder and decay resulting from the blockbusting and other ..."
2. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"blockbusting and redlining. Real estate agencies and lending institutions ...
blockbusting is the tactic used by real estate agents to induce fear of racial ..."
3. Civil Rights Division: Selection of Cases & Reasons Matters Were Closed by Laurie Ekstrand, William Jenkins (2001)
"... or responding party elects to have HUD findings of reasonable cause litigated
in federal court by the Department of "blockbusting refers to the practice ..."
4. Game Theory, Optimal Stopping, Probability and Statistics: Papers in Honor by F. Thomas Bruss, (, Thomas Shelburne Ferguson, Lucien Marie Le Cam (2000)
"Parity also plays an important role in at least four other games: Checkers,
blockbusting, Domineering and Go. 7. ORTHODOXY AND CANONICAL THEORY So far in ..."
5. Essays on Strategy edited by Thomas C. Gill (1996)
"... to do a little conceptual blockbusting and take a fresh look at some of the
outlandishly expensive systems they are buying from self-promoting salesmen, ..."
6. The Da Vinci Code on Trial: Filtering Fact from Fiction by Stephen Clark (2005)
"... it would not be unfair to say that there is much more to Dan Brown's blockbusting
best-seller than anything offered us thus far by Ms Rowling. ..."
7. Albert by Daniel Oldis (1986)
"... “Albert and Jean Rutledge, Thursday, 11:30 PM, 2001 Stone Ave.,” and it
read, “blockbusting action. Superb. Albert is real ball-and-chain fun. ..."
8. Bridging Regional Growth and Community Empowerment edited by Michael A. Stegman, William J. Benfanti, John P. Ross (1996)
"... stop unscrupulous realtors from blockbusting, unscrupulous private mortgage
companies from "scamming" unknowing homeowners with usurious interest rates, ..."
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