Usually means: Inducing property sales through fear.
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  1. blockbusting: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blockbusting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blockbusting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blockbusting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blockbusting: Wordnik
  6. blockbusting: Wiktionary
  7. blockbusting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. blockbusting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. blockbusting: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. blockbusting: Dictionary.com
  11. Blockbusting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. blockbusting: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. blockbusting: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Blockbusting: Legal dictionary
  5. blockbusting: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. blockbusting: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
adjective:  Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

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