Definition of "nimbies" [nimbies]

• Plural form of nimby. (noun)

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• "No development here, these influential nimbies cried."
• "The BBC was promoting a peculiarly specious argument culled from the Stansted nimbies: airport expansion should be checked because it only encourages people to travel, to the disadvantage of British trade."
• "Cities such as London, forever dithering over a third runway at Heathrow, and Los Angeles, where nimbies keep blocking the expansion of LAX, and New York, with sclerotic links from the city to its airports, are in trouble."