food desert

短语

发音

UK /fuːd ˈdɛzə(ɹ)t/
AU
US /fud ˈdɛzɚt/

词形变化

food deserts 复数 food deserts

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain.

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词源

A report by Cummins and Macintyre states that a resident of public housing in western Scotland supposedly coined the more specific phrase food desert in the early 1990s. The phrase was first officially used in a document in 1995 from a policy working group on the Low Income Project Team of the UK's Nutrition Task Force.

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