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fringe dwellernoun1A person living on the margins of a society or community; an outsider: I’m always the fringe dweller, not quite fitting in anywhere...- I wondered why a book on the noble science should be relegated to the domain of such fringe dwellers.
- The 'dolled up' patronage you see wandering about are only fringe dwellers.
- Like himself, his heroes are left-leaning fringe dwellers with poetic licence.
1.1Australian An Aborigine living in deprived conditions on the outskirts of a town: these young fringe dwellers inhabit the crumbling remains of an old homestead...- Commentators who depict the region as an endless flatland of fibro homes and fringe dwellers do so from a position of ignorance.
- The fringe dwellers have certainly thrown a hell of a lot of dung their way.
- They are using only a tenth of the petrol that an outer suburban fringe dweller will be using.
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