Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • The southern and southwest United States.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative

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Examples

  • Lee identifies a set of mechanisms of mobilization in her treatment of "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" industries Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt; and Anita Chan identifies some common mechanisms of the exploitation of immigrant labor in China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • Lee identifies a set of mechanisms of mobilization in her treatment of "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" industries Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt; and Anita Chan identifies some common mechanisms of the exploitation of immigrant labor in China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy.

    Social change in rural China Daniel Little 2008

  • Lee argues that China's workers today, in both "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" settings, have absorbed a set of attitudes towards the moral importance of their legal protections within existing Chinese law, that profoundly influences the form that protests take Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • Lee argues that China's workers today, in both "rustbelt" and "sunbelt" settings, have absorbed a set of attitudes towards the moral importance of their legal protections within existing Chinese law, that profoundly influences the form that protests take Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.

    Labor mobilization Daniel Little 2008

  • Also, I am not asserting that as of this moment the Sunbelt is any healthier.

    Matthew Yglesias » Worthwhile Canadian Initiative? 2008

  • Our techies in Sunbelt downloaded it and sure enough we could blow systems up with it.

    Security updates for Win XP-pro - they scare me . . . 2003

  • When the Sunbelt was the talk of Washington in the 1980s, I calculated that lower Manhattan built more square footage of office space per annum then did all the large cities combined west of Salt Lake City.

    Matthew Yglesias » Pittsburgh, phoenix 2009

  • In southern Sunbelt states, simmering climates dictate the necessity of less fabric or sleeve much of the year.

    “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

  • In southern Sunbelt states, simmering climates dictate the necessity of less fabric or sleeve much of the year.

    “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

  • Today, that chapter is known as the Sunbelt Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.

    Moultrie Observer Homepage 2010

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