Usually means: Expansion of cities into suburbs.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. urban sprawl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. urban sprawl: Merriam-Webster
  3. urban sprawl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. urban sprawl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. urban sprawl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. urban sprawl: Vocabulary.com
  7. urban sprawl: Wiktionary
  8. urban sprawl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. urban sprawl: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. urban sprawl: Dictionary.com
  11. Urban sprawl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. urban sprawl: Rhymezone
  13. urban sprawl: FreeDictionary.org
  14. urban sprawl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. urban sprawl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urban sprawl: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urban sprawl: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urban sprawl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See urban_sprawls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (urban sprawl)

noun:  (urban studies) An unplanned, disorganized growth of housing etc. on the edge of a city.

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