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say it: NIM-bee
nimby is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈnɪmbi/ — NIM-bee. It carries one recorded sense.
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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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nimby come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.