ghost town
/ˈgoʊst ˌtɑʊn/ n [C]Definition
› a town that was busy in the past but is now empty or nearly empty because the activities that kept people there have stopped
(Definition of ghost town n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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