1) Contestant 2) Dissenter 3) Dissident 4) Local protest acronym 5) Modern political acronym 6) Objector 7) Protester
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NIMBY (an acronym for the phrase `Not In My Back Yard`), or Nimby, is a pejorative characterization of opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development because it is close to them, often with the connotation that such residents believe that the developments are needed in society but should be further away. Opposing residents themselve.....
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Acronym for Not In My Back Yard.An expression describing the response from members of a community who disapprove of proposed sites for solid waste disposal. A milder form of NOPE (Not On Planet Earth).
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Not in my back yard! The attitude that citizens' have against waste disposal facilities (hazardous or non-hazardous) being built in or near their community, even when it is their own community that generates the waste (hence New York city ships much of their waste to Virginia). This mindset slows down permitting processes for waste facilities of .....
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Not In My Back Yard â€` a way of describing people who aren`t necessarily against a development, but don`t want it to affect them directly
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Not In My Back Yard
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means “Not In My Back Yard� and refers to the habit of everybody to want any environmental degradation to go on somewhere else
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not in my backyard
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Nimby (an acronym for Not In My Back Yard) is slang for an opponent of controversial legislation.
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Not in my backyard regarding siting of energy generation and transmission infrastructure.
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An acronym for 'not in my back yard' used when discussing planning issues particularly the development of new social housing. The term is used to define the opposition of residents who are against new developments that will devalue their properties.
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noun someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard
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not in my backyard: used to express opposition by local citizens to the locating in their neighborhood of a civic project, as a jail, garbage dump, or drug rehabilitation center, that, though needed by the larger community, is considered unsightly, dangerous, or likely to lead to decreased property values.
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