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  • noun Plural form of bustee.

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Examples

  • One perverse dynamic of this migration is that poor construction workers living on the streets and in bustees (slums) are getting in the way of new satellite towns, gated communities, and special economic zones planned by the state of West Bengal.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • One perverse dynamic of this migration is that poor construction workers living on the streets and in bustees (slums) are getting in the way of new satellite towns, gated communities, and special economic zones planned by the state of West Bengal.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • That's why in June of this year, we passed, as a species, 51 percent of us living in cities, and bustees, and slums, and shantytowns.

    Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism Larry Brilliant 2007

  • That's why in June of this year, we passed, as a species, 51 percent of us living in cities, and bustees, and slums, and shantytowns.

    Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism Larry Brilliant 2007

  • That's why in June of this year, we passed, as a species, 51 percent of us living in cities, and bustees, and slums, and shantytowns.

    Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism Larry Brilliant 2007

  • No bustees there, no sirree, only servants 'quarters.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • But all the while in colliery bustees, he waged a war against moneylenders.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2009

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