MEANING
Relating to buildings with relatively few floors.
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- low-rise building
- low-rise development
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Low-rise buildings surrounded the square.
The plan proposed low-rise development.
A low-rise apartment block faced the park.
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- Base
- low-rise
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: Usually non-gradable adjective; noun low-rise, low-rises. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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