| 释义 |
ˌunder-occuˈpation
[under-1 10 b.]
The occupation of a dwelling or dwellings by fewer people than had been planned; spec. applied to local authority accommodation that is considered to be under-used.
1961Guardian 6 Nov. 2/4 There is a good deal of under-occupation. 1966[see one-person s.v. one B. IX. 34 a]. 1977Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 116/2 Parallel with the so-called scandal of empty homes, we also hear of the scandal of under-occupation. It is all wrong, the critics say, for an elderly council tenant to occupy a three bed⁓room house, when she could be living in a one-room new council flat.
Also under-ˈoccupy v. trans., under-ˈoccupied ppl. a.
1961Guardian 28 Nov. 8/2 From the point of view of a local authority housing official a house with spare bed⁓rooms is ‘under-occupied’. 1966J. Tunstall Old & Alone xiv. 281, 52.3 per cent of old people under-occupying housing were owner-occupiers, against 38.5 per cent who paid rent. 1970Times 23 Mar. 5/1 To find room in this way for the elderly and others needing small homes would release seriously underoccupied large houses for bigger families. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 75 The interesting thing at Leicester..was the admirable way they are trying to deal with the problem of the people who grow elderly on their huge housing estates and then under-occupy their three-room council houses. |