Meanings
plural council houses
- IrelandUKA house built and operated by a county council or a town council, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.
The modern council house, with its bathroom and electric light, is smaller than the stockbroker's villa, but it is recognizably the same kind of house, which the farm labourer’s cottage is not.
1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn1 more example
She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
Translations
Finnish kunnan omistama vuokra-asunto
- kunnan omistama vuokra-asuntohouse built and operated by a local council
German sozialer Wohnungsbau
- sozialer Wohnungsbauhouse built and operated by a local council
Greek εργατική κατοικία
- εργατική κατοικία (ergatikí katoikía)house built and operated by a local council
Hungarian önkormányzatiház (bér)
- önkormányzatiház (bér) (tulajdonú)house built and operated by a local council
Welsh tŷ cyngor
- tŷ cyngorhouse built and operated by a local council
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