| 单词 | metropolitan county |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmetropolitan county metropolitan county n. any county containing a large urban area; spec. any one of the six units of English local government (in existence from 1974 to 1986) centred on the major conurbations outside London. ΚΠ 1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 2 338 From the first of these tables it appears that the metropolitan county exceeds the average by 61 per cent. 1885 Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 1/1 There appears to have been a..tendency..to stint the metropolitan counties of their sizings. 1971 Daily Tel. 17 Feb. 9 Six new metropolitan county councils are proposed by the Government in its plans for reorganisation of local government published today. 1988 Parl. Affairs 41 357 Witness Mrs Thatcher's resolve to break accepted practice in all sorts of fields such as the abolition of Metropolitan Counties without a Royal Commission. < as lemmas |
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