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NIMBY
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• NIMBY (noun)
The noun NIMBY has 1 sense:
1. someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard
Familiarity information: NIMBY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("NIMBY" is a kind of...):
contestant; dissenter; dissident; objector; protester (a person who dissents from some established policy)
Domain usage:
acronym; initialism (a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word)
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