Definition of "docklands" [docklands]

• An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port. (noun)

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• "The Global Peace Festival, at the Excel Centre in the London docklands, is expected to attract thousands of activists from across Europe and features addresses from Preston Moon, the third son of the church’s founder, and Tom Brake, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman."
• "In the newest docklands, which is man-made land, you can even find orchids."
• "Ironically, the Reichmanns not only imposed a detailed planning regime on their estate within the "planning-lite" docklands, but also convinced Margaret Thatcher to spend large sums of public money on the Jubilee Line extension and a major new road at Limehouse."