banana principle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Clearly it is tempting to say "no more pipelines" or to adopt the BANANA principle — Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody."
- "When it comes to nuclear facilities, the NIMBY (notin-my-backyard) principle has evolved into the BANANA principle; “build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything.”"
- "Faburel (2003) describes a general trend away from the NIMBY ('not in my backyard') attitude towards the BANANA principle ('build absolutely nothing anywhere near anybody')."
- "In an uncommon show of humor in a government report, it says this: "What used to be termed the 'not-in-my-backyard' (NIMBY) principle has evolved into the 'build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything' (BANANA) principle, which is increasingly being applied to facilities of any type, including low-income housing, cellular phone towers, prisons, sports stadiums, water treatment facilities, airports, hazardous waste facilities, and even new fire houses.""