Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
Määritelmät
Fraasi
- (chiefly US, UK) Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).
Substantiivi
- (usually derogatory) Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.
Adjektiivi
- Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.
Esimerkit
- politically correct green (as in vegetation) nimbies (may object to nuclear power plants, polluting factories, etc.)
- socially conservative brown (as in shirts) nimbies (may object to the building of jails, prisons, housing for ex-convicts, drinking or adult entertainment establishments)
- fiscally conservative green (as in money) nimbies (may object to the building of anything which may decrease preexisting property values)
- Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.
Taivutusmuodot
(chiefly US, UK) Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).
Proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, 130 km (80 mi) northwest of Las Vegas, was approved by the government and then opposed by the citizens of Nevada. Federal funding ended in 2011.
(usually derogatory) Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.
Unfinished tower in Tenleytown, Washington, D.C. that was later removed as a result of complaints from the neighborhood
Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.
No TAV protest in 2005