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单词 corporate town
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corporate town
corporate town n. (also town corporate) now historical a town possessing a municipal corporation, an incorporated town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough
burrows-townc1175
mayor-town1375
boroughc1380
borough-town1382
burghc1425
corporate town1478
royal burgh1591
county borough1708
municipality1790
Royal Borough1805
county1888
1478 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1478 §27. m. 5 And if it happen in cite, burgh or toune corporat, then afore the maire..or other chief governour there.
1574 T. Tymme tr. J. de Serres Three Partes Comm. Ciuill Warres Fraunce iii. vi. 263 To be free also from making an accompt of such money as he hath taken out of Cities, or corporat Townes.
1606 R. Bowyer Diary 3 Dec. in Parl. Diary (1931) 200 No Scottish man should be made Bayliff etc. of any Towne Corporate or Citty.
1765 Maryland Gaz. 1 Aug. The Colonies..are in the very same Situation as the Inhabitants of Leeds, Halifax, Birmingham, Manchester, and several other corporate Towns.
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. i. 33 The citizens of corporate towns.
1986 Financial Times 12 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) xii/1 Southwold in the north, made a town corporate by Henry VII, is elegant, charming, a model of what one would wish every British coastal town to be.
2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 31/1 Miller addresses these themes through the study of developments in the larger English corporate towns, between the Restoration and the general election of 1722.
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