Meaning of rural in English

rural

adjective

/ˈrʊə.rəl/ us

/ˈrʊr.əl/

in, of, or like the countryside:

The area is still very rural and undeveloped.

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She's carrying out a comparative study of health in inner cities and rural areas.
In the rural areas, illiteracy is widespread.
The austerities of life in a small rural community were not what I was used to.
The authorities have revoked their original decision to allow development of this rural area.
Their cottage is in an idyllic rural setting.

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rural

adjective

/ˈrʊr·əl/

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in, of, or like the country (= land not in cities):

She grew up in rural Utah.

(Definition of rural from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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rural

adjective

/ˈrʊərəl/ us

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in or from the countryside:

the rural economy

The difficulties facing rural communities today are very real.

rural areas.

He has a great ability to connect with rural voters.

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(Definition of rural from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Both authors advocate an eclectic mix of quantitative survey and qualitative interviews for the study of current rural labour transformations.

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In general, little is known about those living on the margins of society during this period, especially in the rural regions.

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However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.

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In terms of recreation, culture, education, and even rural industries, the period was characterised as much by development and change as by stagnation and decline.

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However, it is also clear that the rural-urban fault line will not be removed or redrawn at least within the foreseeable future.

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In every chapter the narrative is given colour by local case studies from urban and rural congregations, brief vignettes of church leaders and telling incidents.

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Within rural communities, reciprocity in the form of ongoing nonmonetised transfers of resources - land, labour and food - endures and will probably continue to do so.

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All schools visited were situated in typical rural areas, in various parts of the island.

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During the first decades of the twentieth century, there were several experiments in rural, urban and mining areas.

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However, the increased cost on capital plus the incurred tax burden raise the unit cost of producing the rural good.

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Although there may be some differences in scale and type of rural firms, the end result seems remarkably similar.

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Rural agents had near total discretion in route selection and management.

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The canals were cemented over, the fields disappeared and only some tiny rural features remained.

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In short, "the nation is an audience to be created by histories, poems, and pictures of a disappearing rural life" (28).

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Significantly it identified a broader constituency for a rural policy.

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Translations of rural

in Chinese (Traditional)

鄉村的，農村的, 似鄉村的…

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