"nail house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nail houses [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 釘子戶/钉子户 (dīngzihù). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|zh|-}} Calque of Chinese, {{zh-l|釘子戶}} 釘子戶/钉子户 (dīngzihù) Head templates: {{en-noun}} nail house (plural nail houses)
  1. A private home whose owner refuses to move to clear way for new real estate developments despite offers of huge monetary sums from a private developer or expropriation attempts by the government. Wikipedia link: nail house Related terms: holdout Translations (house whose owner refuses to move to clear way for new real estate developments): 釘子戶 (Chinese Mandarin), 钉子户 (dīngzihù) (Chinese Mandarin), naulatalo (note: only in reference to the Chinese phenomenon) [rare] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-nail_house-en-noun-VQfzcxic Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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