What does rust-belt mean?

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rust-belt

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

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noun

"The government in Kiev would also have to cope with Europe’s greatest swathe of rust-belt mines and industries."

rust-belts (plural)

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