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View synonyms for disaster area
disaster area
noun
- a region or locality in which the population is generally affected by the occurrence of a major disaster, as a widespread flood, an explosion causing extensive damage, or the like.
- such a region or locality officially determined to be eligible, under statutory provisions, for emergency governmental relief.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disaster area1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
We request everybody outside of the disaster area to refrain from hoarding gasoline, light diesel, and heavy fuel oil.
From The Daily Beast
The actual command post had not been established, but let me better explain a command post by a disaster area, like a fire.
From Project Gutenberg
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