development area

1. N (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries (英國(guó))發(fā)展地區(qū); 受高失業(yè)率和經(jīng)濟(jì)消沉折磨的地區(qū)，因爲(wèi)其主要工業(yè)的衰退而被給予政府援助以建立新興工業(yè)