inner-city
/ˈɪn·ər ˌsit̬·i/ adj [not gradable]Definition
› found in or involving the older, central part of a city where there are poor people and bad housing: There are more problems in large, inner-city school districts. inner city /ˈɪn·ər ˈsit̬·i/ n [C] › The program gives kids from the inner city a taste of the wilderness.
(Definition of inner-city adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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