| 单词 | county borough |
| 释义 | > as lemmascounty borough county borough n. †(a) = county town n. (obsolete); (b) a large borough ranking as a county for administrative purposes.Under the Local Government Act 1888, boroughs of above 50,000 inhabitants in England and Wales were given the status of county, and became administratively, but not politically or judicially, independent of the counties in which they were situated. County boroughs were abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, but reintroduced in Wales in 1994. ΘΚΠ 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 1708 Act 6 Anne 114 (heading) For the county-borough of Carmarthen. 1790 Whitehall Evening-post 26–29 June The riots so usual at contested elections have been uncommonly violent in many of the county boroughs on the late dissolution of Parliament. 1888 Local Govt. (Eng. & Wales) Bill ii. 22 in Parl. Papers (Bill 338) IV. 155 Each of the boroughs named in the Third Schedule to this Act being a borough which on the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, either had a population of not less than fifty thousand..shall, from..the appointed day, be for the purposes of this Act a county of itself, and is in this Act referred to as a county borough. 1948 Geogr. Jrnl. 111 174 About half the county boroughs are in the seven great industrial areas, London, South and East Lancashire, the West Riding, [etc.]. 1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) iii. 49 Under this Act [sc. Local Government Act 1972] (operative from April 1974) the eighty-two county boroughs were abolished outright. 2013 South Wales Argus (Nexis) 8 Jan. Unwanted items can be left at collection points across the county borough until January 18. < as lemmas |
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