rural 49
n.— «Senate leaders and environmental advocates hope a new bill designed to limit the size of retail stores might lead Wal-Mart and other big retailers to develop a “rural 49″ kind of store scaled to Vermont’s compact villages and downtowns.» —“Senate pushing forward with bill to control big-box stores” by Ross Sneyd Rutland Herald (Vt.) May 5, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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