metropolitan county

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noun

(in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986

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metrophobia, metroplasty, Metroplex, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan county, metropolitan district, metropolitanize, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera, metrorrhagia

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Better wait till these county nobs have cleared, I suppose—there goes the last of 'em—now for it!
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