| 单词 | union council | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasunion council  c.  In Pakistan: a local administrative unit, below the level of a tehsil (see tehsil n.). Chiefly attributive, as  union committee,  union council,  union level, etc.The union level was the lowest level in a five-tier system of government created by the Basic Democracies Order of 1959: see quot. 1964   for further details. ΚΠ 1959    Times 27 Oct. 9/1  				The bottom of the pyramid will be made up of ‘union councils’ not very different from the village panchayats used in experiments with local self-government in undivided India. 1964    R. W. Gable in  Inayatullah District Admin. W. Pakistan  i. 15  				Basic Democracies are characterized by a four-tier structure of councils... The councils operate, in ascending order, at the level of unions, or groups of villages; tehsils (in West Pakistan) and thanas (in East Pakistan); districts; and divisions. In urban areas there are Town Committees and Union Committees in place of Union Councils. 1970    Times of India 6 Sept. 12  				He demanded the immediate abolition of the basic democracies system and alleged that the chairmen of the union councils and union committees were using their position to convass [sic] support for their favourite candidates. 2013    Dawn 		(Pakistan)	 		(Nexis)	 31 Dec.  				The political parties have still not finalised their candidates for the different union councils or wards in the district. < as lemmas  | 
	
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