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residential

[rez-i-den-shuhl]

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adjective

of or pertaining to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.

suited for or characterized by private residences: a residential neighborhood.

Origin:
1645–55; < Medieval Latin residenti(a) residence + -al¹

Related forms

res·i·den·ti·al·i·ty

[rez-i-den-shee-al-i-tee] , noun

res·i·den·tial·ly, adverb

non·res·i·den·tial, adjective

pseu·do·res·i·den·tial, adjective

qua·si-res·i·den·tial, adjective

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qua·si-res·i·den·tial·ly, adverb

un·res·i·den·tial, adjective

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Goddard's president shortly after the residential program shut down, went on a listening tour to meet alumni.

For housing to threaten recovery, residential investment would need to fall substantially from that level.

Numerous brands of wind turbines as well as kits and plans for home-built turbines are available for residential use.

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Goddard's president shortly after the residential program shut down, went on a listening tour to meet alumni.

For housing to threaten recovery, residential investment would need to fall substantially from that level.

Numerous brands of wind turbines as well as kits and plans for home-built turbines are available for residential use.

Residential areas and light commercial are not the big draw on power.

Hopefully it won't be long before more people come to realize that wood burning fire pits have no place in residential areas.

The firm is aiming at the commercial market, avoiding the coming residential bulb bloodbath.

The model of small residential colleges in small towns is probably not sustainable at this time.

The residential and services sectors are where the waste is, and that is where the conservation ought be.

Such installations can be small for residential use or large-scale operations that can power industry.

Today, distributed residential demand response exists in rudimentary forms.

He became certified in residential construction while working as a structural engineer in a homebuilding firm.

Historically, towers included retail on the lower levels and either residential or commercial space above.

Each described the report as an antidote to skepticism about the benefits of the residential model in an age of online learning.

But even these economists would concede that property markets, both residential and commercial, are inefficient.

These are mainly residential streets to the left, but you never know what little gem you might find.

And, as a bonus, you don t get people cutting through residential neighborhoods to avoid the backups.

They also do interior and exterior residential landscape design and installation.

The building provides both academic and residential space.

The programme includes two one-week residential sessions and an international study tour.

List the things you can do to prevent residential pollution.

It's how cars usually get off the street into a parking lot or residential driveway.

But he's also worked on many smaller-scale residential projects that are water-wise and beautiful.

There are a lot of commercial activities that urban areas might reasonably want to zone out of residential areas.

Most of it is used for industrial boilers and residential space heating.

As a result, tighter lending standards have not had the dramatic consequences that they have had in the residential sector.

Switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs offers you an easy way to save on your residential electricity use.

Note in other crises, residential real estate was not necessarily a focus of the bubble.

Bad weather early in the year dampened consumer activity and residential investment.

Exports continued to fall while domestic residential investment also dropped, contributing to the pinch.

The idea is this: the government provides working capital that allows developers to finish residential blocks.

One of the main ways monetary policy typically works is through the residential investment channel.

But the slump in residential construction will take time to fix.

The pace of foreclosures has not abated, and there has been no improvement in employment in residential construction.

The notion of reaching students who can't fit into the standard residential degree programs has.

Scientists have found that runoff from residential yards is filled with far more.

Additionally, the phds from such non residential programs are able to foster independent research by their students.

The first channel is through lower residential investment.

Chemical runoff from residential and farm products affects rivers, streams and even the ocean.

Ren, who owns a residential contracting company, advises that.

We've helped create two high-design demonstration homes to show how the latest residential innovations play out.

But when their business involves the residential care.

Hamilton, struggled with civic leaders to secure new residential housing for black professional families.

Thank you to those generous souls in the nearby residential area who have not secured their wireless systems.

Agriculture is still extensive in some areas, and the development of ski resorts and residential areas is a growing problem.

Bedbug sprays sold for residential use in neighborhood stores rarely eradicate or prevent bedbugs.

The pods may have a future in a range of residential and commercial projects.

For residential consumers, the department says, this will matter little.

Freeways, office complexes, and residential neighborhoods surround the gorge.

The major ubiquitous emission sources outdoors in populated areas are residential home heating and motor vehicles.

Although the pesticides' residential use was phased.

The twins, however, wanted to experience life on a residential campus.

Steep-sloped roofs are generally found on residential homes.

Of course they could tap into residential natural gas service but that calls for a compressor.

The habitat is also adjacent to a residential area, so it will be difficult to protect the site.

She is a nightmare who is now committed to indefinite residential treatment.

And the effects of a housing slowdown would ripple further, slowing residential investment and hitting employment.

Most proposals for wind farms in residential areas have been met with outraged not-in-my-backyard.

Archaeologists have previously found undecorated tumi knives in residential and ceremonial settings.

The emissions are less than a residential heating furnace.

The police had already left the scene, which is where a residential neighborhood meets the woods.

Since people are living longer but not necessarily healthier lives, demand for residential care will keep increasing.

Recently, new designs and colors have made it popular with residential architects and designers as.

It was designed to encourage solar energy by residential and commercial property owners.

The new report only looked at emissions from transportation and residential energy usage.

They serve as the residential area for much of the city's work force.

It is wood smoke from residential and recreational wood burning.

Other experts suspect they may be the first signs of a much larger residential area that has yet to be explored.

Wind and solar have there small residential use, but will never be able to support our energy needs.

Consumption figures also exclude spending on residential housing.

It is impossible to sell residential property in the vicinity of a wind farm.

Two-thirds of schools which offer long, residential programmes saw applications drop in.

The housing bubble has burst and residential construction has seized up.

Nuclear electricity and steam would be used to replace natural gas in residential and industrial heating applications.

The commercial-property downturn has a greater geographical spread than the residential bust.

Their was vehicles driving by on the street in a residential area, but it didn't seem to be bothered.

Residential investment has collapsed, but a glut of unsold homes means that prices have much further to drop.

Should his health deteriorate to the point where he can no longer make a cup of tea, he will be encouraged into residential care.

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World English Dictionary

residential (ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl)

—*adj*
1.	suitable for or allocated for residence: a residential area
2.	relating to or having residence

resi'dentially

—*adv*

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