county borough

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(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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Words nearby county borough

countship, count to ten, county, county agent, county board, county borough, county clerk, county commissioner, county court, county fair, county farm

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How to use county borough in a sentence

“Please, please do not permit this to happen here in Florida,” wrote Cris K. Smith of East Polk County.
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As of this afternoon, gay Floridians can get married in Dade County.
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Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president, pushed back against that view.
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Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
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Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.
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The taxes whether public, county, or parish, were payable in tobacco.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
He had the land in Tripp County that was broken into winter wheat, while that in the next county east was rented.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Better wait till these county nobs have cleared, I suppose—there goes the last of 'em—now for it!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
At the end of 1881 there were 93,776 children in the borough between the ages of three and thirteen.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell