Zug

American  

[tsook] / tsuk /

noun

1. a canton in central Switzerland. 92 sq. mi. (238 sq. km).

2. the capital of this canton, on the Lake of Zug.

3. Lake of, a lake in this canton. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).

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Zug British  

/ tsuːk /

noun

1. a canton of N central Switzerland: the smallest Swiss canton; mainly German-speaking and Roman Catholic; joined the Swiss Confederation in 1352. Capital: Zug. Pop: 102 200 (2002 est). Area: 239 sq km (92 sq miles)

2. a town in N central Switzerland, the capital of Zug canton, on Lake Zug. Pop: 22 973 (2000)

3. a lake in N central Switzerland, in Zug and Schwyz cantons. Area: 39 sq km (15 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Two of the islanders travelled to Switzerland for a September hearing at the court in Zug, where Holcim is headquartered, to determine whether it would consider the complaint.

From Barron's

The NGOs said the Zug court had rejected that argument.

From Barron's

As currently written, the hurdles the bill creates could serve as a disincentive to marriage — or, at least, traditional marriage — agued Marcia Zug, a University of South Carolina School of Law professor whose research focuses on immigration law, reproductive rights, federal Indian law and marital law.

From Salon

"If you want to be cynical — there a lot of policies attacking women — the way it struck me, almost, was a kind of return to coverture," Zug said in a phone interview, referencing the colonial legal practice that held women had no legal identity of their own.

From Salon

Marcia Zug, a professor of marital law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, told Salon that she expects more of this kind of legislation to arise in the years to come because of their spread.

From Salon