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NIMBY

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Not in my backyard!

and NIMBY

exclam. & comp. abb. Don’t locate something undesirable close to me. (Describes an attitude that people express about having noisy or dirty facilities installed close to where they live.) When you say, build the new incinerator here, I say NIMBY.

See also: not

NIMBY

verb

See Not in my backyard!