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county borough
noun
- (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- (in the Republic of Ireland) any of the four largest boroughs, governed independently of the administrative county around it by an elected council that constitutes an all-purpose authority
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In 1898 Belfast, the former capital, was constituted into a county borough.
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The county borough of Leicester has a separate court of quarter sessions and a separate commission of the peace.
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Devonport, formerly a county borough and port of England, county of Devon, contiguous to Plymouth.
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