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单词 metropolitan borough
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metropolitan borough
noun[C]
uk
/met.rəˌpɒl.ɪ.tən ˈbʌr.ə/us
/met.rəˌpɑː.lə.tən ˈbɝː.oʊ/
anareainEnglandwithitsownlocalgovernmentthat ispartof ametropolitancounty(= anareathatincludesalargecity):
都市自治市；都市自治镇（英格兰有自己地方政府的地区，属于都市郡的一部分）
SouthYorkshireisdividedinto fourmetropolitanboroughs: Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, and Barnsley.南约克郡分为四个大城市: 谢菲尔德、罗瑟勒姆、唐克斯特和巴恩斯利。
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  • Walsall is thelargestof the sixtownsin themetropolitanboroughof Walsall.
  • Localelectionsare beingheldinmetropolitanboroughs,unitaryauthoritiesanddistrictcouncilsacrossEnglandandWales.
  • Trafford is ametropolitanboroughofGreaterManchester,England, with apopulationof over 200,000.
  • Theschemeisrunby Wirrall Metropolitan Borough Council.
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(Definition ofmetropolitan boroughfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Sixty-four orders made bymetropolitanboroughcouncils are before me.
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I suppose that that number has been chosen because of itsmetropolitanboroughassociation.
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This is in a typicalmetropolitanborough, with a great deal of multi-occupation, and, of course, a great deal of property having passed into decontrol.
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I started in public life as the mayor of ametropolitanborough.
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There weremetropolitanboroughcouncil elections in 1962.
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There could have been, of course,metropolitanboroughamalgamations of a limited character and subject to agreement.
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Thesemetropolitanboroughcouncils are the natural units in this case.
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The tax will also affect my localmetropolitanboroughcouncil, which currently disposes of 120,000 tonnes of waste per annum.
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Between 1992 and 1997, my local authority shared a common experience with nearly every major industrialmetropolitanboroughauthority in the country.
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We think it would be unfair to place the sanitary inspectors of themetropolitanboroughcouncils in an unfavourable position in this respect.
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Each locality, which usually represents a district council ormetropolitanborougharea, is required to produce a community safety or crime reduction plan.
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However, there is a particular difficulty as regardsmetropolitanboroughcouncils and district councils.
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They will not be, as themetropolitanboroughcouncils were, purely incorporated as to their councils.
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The effect of that case was to deny tometropolitanboroughcouncils any effective say in distributing licences to street traders.
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If themetropolitanboroughmaintains its services with efficiency and on the level which is held to be desirable, all will be well.
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