apartment blocks

Multi-unit housing structures

Apartment blocks are large buildings divided into multiple residential units, typically several stories high.

The term is more common in British English; Americans usually say apartment buildings.

The city demolished the old apartment blocks to make way for new development.

A single structure in such a complex is an apartment block.

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