urban district

collocation in English

meaningsofurbananddistrict

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɜː.bən/us
/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition ofurbananddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofurban district

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Theurbandistrictauthority was, however, by no means the only body that incorporated a local state presence.
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The resident committee is an administrative unit within eachurbandistrict; its average population ranges from 2,000 to 3,000 residents.
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Elected local authorities comprise 27 county councils, five county borough corporations, and six borough corporations, along with 49urbandistrictcouncils and 26 boards of town commissioners.
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Seventeen unfenced sandpits were sampled from 42 kindergartens located in the city'surbandistrict.
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But the electoral areas drawn in the new county do not even give one equality as between one part of anurbandistrictand another.
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Even if this is so, only theurbandistrictmay contribute as the premises concerned are situated in its territory.
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I served on anurbandistrictcouncil of nine, which we increased to 12 and then to 18.
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I saw the other day that in oneurbandistrictin my own locality where there were a hundred before, there are now only ten.
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Theurbandistrictcouncil succeeded in obtaining men to take the places of the men who left their work.
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The expenses of theurbandistrictcame to £10,000, and a conservative estimate of the whole thing was that it cost between £25,000 and £30,000.
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There are, further, certain technical difficulties as regards a change of boundaries of a municipal borough as opposed to anurbandistrict.
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Before their boundaries are changed in this manner, should not the people of thaturbandistrictbe entitled to call for a public inquiry?
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Take the case of the creation of any borough from anurbandistrict.
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Is a town council to be regarded as anurbandistrict, as well as a borough or a county borough council?
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So it is, in fact, the rating authority which decides what is going to be collected within the borough, within the rural orurbandistrict.
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Theurbandistrictcouncils of the smaller boroughs grind away at what is an arduous and humdrum task.
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These words should have been put in after "any borough orurbandistrict,"with a population of over 20,000.
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It prefers to go to theurbandistrictcouncils which have no registers at all.
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But theurbandistrictcouncils are left out.
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