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tract house

noun

  1. a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tract house1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

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McCarthy's home in Bakersfield home is a modest, middle-class residence, a 1,571-square-foot tract house built in 1987, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, that the congressman and his wife purchased in 1996.

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Look, I understand why people wouldn’t want a high-rise apartment building jammed into the middle of a tract house development.

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He was raised in Europe and an affluent suburb of Philadelphia; she had grown up in a Garden Grove tract house.

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Joe’s father, an Air Force officer, bought a small tract house with mortgaged furniture; even the children’s bunk beds and the radio were on loan.

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Every now and again, there is a lyric moment, as in a photograph of a woman seen in silhouette through the window of a tract house in Colorado Springs in 1968.

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