0 a place or situation where a lot of a particular activity, especially an unwanted or unpleasant activity, is happening or might happen:
The police department was a hotbed of corruption.
1 a place or situation where a lot of a particular activity is happening or might happen:
Seattle is a hotbed of software publishing.
I have not chosen examples of hotbeds of socialism.
Many areas, including my constituency, are not hotbeds of crime and are relatively safe, which is not the case everywhere.
Certain types of pet shops, usually grossly overcrowded, are known to be hotbeds of disease.
This sum of £500,000 is a sum asked for deliberately for the odious purpose of nursing that hotbed of trouble, the spy.
It is in turmoil; it is a hotbed of discontent.
It is anything but a hotbed of dissent.
He said it was a hotbed of discontent.
There are people who speak as if the county schools were hotbeds of immorality and atheism.
