apartment_building has definitions from the field of housing
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[ noun ] (housing) a building that is divided into apartments

Synonyms

apartment_house

Used in print

(The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)

Large apartment_buildings of masonry or concrete provide better natural shelter than the usual family dwellings .

The central area of the ground_floor of a heavily constructed apartment_building , with concrete floors , should provide more fallout protection than the ordinary basement of a family dwelling .

The basement of such an apartment_building may provide as much natural protection as the specially constructed concrete block shelter recommended for the basement of a family dwelling .

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