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美:['bɜb]
英:['bɜ:b]
美:['bɜb]
noun
suburb—usually used in plural
by shortening
The first known use of burb was in 1971
bureaucraticadjective
of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a bureaucracy or bureaucrat
bureaucratnoun
a member of a bureaucracy
bureaucracynoun
a body of government officials
a system of managing an organization (as a government or business) by strictly following a fixed routine or procedure that often results in delay
bureaunoun
a subdivision of a government department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
a business office providing services for the public
a travel bureau
a low chest of drawers for use in a bedroom
burdocknoun
any of a genus of coarse herbs that are related to the daisies and have globe-shaped flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts
burdensomeadjective
so heavy or hard to take as to be a burden
burden1 of 2noun
something carried : load
something taken as a duty or responsibility
tax burdens
something hard to take
a burden of sorrow
the carrying of loads
beast of burden
capacity for carrying cargo
a ship of 100 tons burden
burden2 of 2noun
the refrain or chorus of a song
a main idea : gist
burden1 of 2noun
something carried : load
something taken as a duty or responsibility
tax burdens
something hard to take
a burden of sorrow
the carrying of loads
beast of burden
capacity for carrying cargo
a ship of 100 tons burden
burden2 of 2noun
the refrain or chorus of a song
a main idea : gist
burbnoun
suburb sense 2—usually used in plural
1 Utilities in Sunnyvale, taken as a fairly typical Silicon Valley ‘burb, are also lower than in San Francisco, by about $1,000 per year.
2 The sinuous result, crafted predominantly from steel, concrete, and glass and on which Cunningham bestowed the name Wing House, is now available for $10.5 million to avant-garde architecture lovers with a penchant for the ‘burbs and a thing for curves.
3 The defending Super Bowl champs and the San Francisco 49ers are out in the ‘burbs, safely tucked away in Henderson, Nevada, far, far away from the Strip.
4 Therefore, Mark, who still listens to music on a boombox, would have been living way out in the ’burbs since the financial crash of 2008.
5 Alderman said there’s precedent, such as the New York Jets and New York Giants playing in East Rutherford, N.J.A bunch of other teams play in the ’burbs.
6 As is well-documented, the pandemic prompted more Americans to fall out of love with cities, with the ‘burbs enjoying the latest of their many revivals, Pew Research Center found.
7 Loving it in the northern burbs with very little AC use so far!
8 Wags used to say that out in the ’burbs, names memorialized the things construction had displaced, so the Oaks at Fox Chase was a place that had no oaks and no foxes.