neighborhood

in the neighborhood of (some amount)

Approximately some amount; close to some amount. We're going to have to spend in the neighborhood of $20,000 for this renovation.
See also: neighborhood, of

neighborhood play

In baseball, a play in which a fielder forces an out on a runner by simply getting close to ("in the neighborhood of") second base without actually touching it. Neighborhood plays would often happen to avoid a collision between the runner and the infielder, though they don't allow it anymore.
See also: neighborhood, play
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(somewhere) in the neighborhood of something

Fig. approximately a particular amount or measurement. I take somewhere in the neighborhood of ten pills a day for my various ailments. My rent is in the neighborhood of $700 per month.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

in the neighborhood of

Also, in the region of. Approximately, about, as in They paid in the neighborhood of a million dollars, or I don't know exactly what the exchange rate is-somewhere in the region of 95 yen to the dollar . The first expression dates from the mid-1800s, the variant from the mid-1900s.
See also: neighborhood, of
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • in the neighborhood of
  • in the neighborhood of (some amount)
  • in the neighbourhood of
  • neighbourhood
  • of the order of (some amount)
  • in/of the order of
  • in the order of (some amount)
  • in the region of
  • in the region of (some amount)
  • region
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She cited racial and economic differences between subsidized housing residents of all races and some of the neighborhood's newer, more diluent residents, many of whom are white.
Carbon copies: today's Chicago resembles the deeply segregated city Martin Luther King Jr. encountered 40 years ago
Officers may view the neighborhood as unable or unwilling to care for itself.
Situational policing
Studies planned or under way at the RAND center will evaluate numerous neighborhood variables, including how the presence of parks shapes physical activity and health; whether different types of neighborhoods and neighborhood features produce different biological "footprints" (patterns of biological markers); how elements of the built environment may influence mental health; how physical and social aspects of a neighborhood may contribute to the disabling process in the elderly; whether neighborhood characteristics correlate with obesity, physical activity, and diet; and how outdoor air pollution affects the worsening of asthma.
Dwelling on differences in health
An issue highly correlated to neighborhood regret, safety, was among the least researched neighborhood attributes.
Trulia survey finds more than 30% of people would pick a different neighborhood if given the chance
A neighborhood is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.
SUSTAINABILITY IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS, A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Maintenance workshops will also enter the neighborhood to start the process of rehabilitation and maintenance at the neighborhood.
459 gunmen and 993 of their families' members leave al-Waer neighborhood
We investigate the relationship between neighborhood poverty and other neighborhood characteristics, focusing on the cities in MTO.
Neighborhood poverty and quality in the moving to opportunity experiment
Measuring Neighborhood Quality With Survey Data: A Bayesian Approach.
Factors affecting neighbourhood quality: a conceptual framework
There are almost 120 houses in this neighborhood with ten wells, in addition to six towers, and a fortified gate, interrupting the neighborhood's wall and its adjoining houses that have given the neighborhood an additional defence factor.
Wilayat of Adam/ Report
With a legacy dating back to 1970, John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods is currently building in 40 neighborhoods in Atlanta, GA; Charleston, SC; Charlotte and Raleigh, NC and Nashville, TN.
John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods Announces Grand Opening at Meeting Park
Even if a metro area experiences rising average levels of employment and income, the changes in specific neighborhoods in that metro area may be well above or below that average.
Is a neighborhood's unemployment rate influenced by its metro area?
The neighborhood began to acquire new conceptual currency around that time--as the prominent urbanist and New Yorker architecture critic Lewis Mumford suggested in a 1954 article in Town Planning Review--precisely because it was under threat.
Welcome to the jumble: what place do neighborhoods have in modern cities?
"We want to understand what the selection procedure is." Khalid Al-Dhobaibi, 25, said that the social leader of his neighborhood has stayed the same, with his son filling in when he is sick.
Choosing neighborhood leaders a controversial practice
Neighborhood socioeconomic conditions, built environments, and childhood obesity.
Walkable for whom? examining the role of the built environment on the neighbourhood-based physical activity of children
Petty yesterday promised monthly meetings of a neighborhood advisory group to create a plan to make the city safer.
Petty vows to make neighborhoods safer