closed city

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Noun

closed city (plural closed cities)

  1. Any of several settlements, especially in the Soviet Union (historically) or Russia (today), that have travel and residency restrictions, typically because they house sensitive nuclear or defense facilities.
    Antonym: open city
    • 2017 January 3, Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
      [A] man with a gravelly, slow-talking, New Mexico drawl, Glassmire had built a career as a respected scientist who had worked as an engineer for Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-fifties, when Los Alamos was still a closed city.

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