depopulation
di pop yuh lay shuh
- n the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)
- CHRISTINE SCHENK, a Cleveland-area nun, denouncing a spate of church closures due to depopulation and financial strains 'Somebody had to get a little lucky with him.
- Instead it fuels the expansion of industrial megafarms and the depopulation of rural America.
- PTI Boston Correspondent Philip Taubman took a trip down East recently to explore a special kind of depopulation problem.