county borough

noun

1. (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
2. (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

Example Sentences

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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