| in the neighborhood of (somewhere) in the neighborhood of (something) about or approximately. The size of the library is in the neighborhood of 5,000 books. We hope to get somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 for our house. Usage notes: used before a number and sometimes following something: We've had something in the neighborhood of 80,000 hits on our website. 27% of the time this follows "somewhere"--SL, 8/02 |