| 单词 | urban district |
| 释义 | > as lemmasurban district urban district n. (also with upper-case initials) an administrative area comprising a town or city, spec. a subdivision of a county in an urban area of England and Wales, as constituted by the Local Government Act of 1894 (see quot. 1894) and abolished by the Local Government Act of 1972 (now historical); cf. district n. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > urban district urban district1840 1840 Times 15 Apr. 5/2 Where a borough being a county in itself, comprehended a rural district, not suited to be part of a corporate town, such borough and county were reduced to the proper bounds of an urban district. 1894 Act 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73 §21 Urban sanitary authorities shall be called urban district councils, and their districts shall be called urban districts. 1961 Kentish Times 28 July 10 There is little land left in the urban district, with its Green Belt setting, for either Council or private developer. 1997 A. Olechnowicz Working-class Housing in Eng. between Wars iv. 120 A part of the estate became an Urban District with 16 councillors. < as lemmas |
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