| 单词 | urban district council |
| 释义 | > as lemmasurban district council urban district council n. (also with upper-case initials) now historical the local council of an Urban District (see urban district n.); abbreviated U.D.C. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > district council rural district council1888 urban district council1888 district council1894 RDC1904 U.D.C.1905 rural1952 urban1952 1888 Leeds Mercury 20 Mar. 4/7 In the boroughs, of course, the Town Councils will be the future Urban District Councils. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 81/2 The powers conferred upon the [Food Production] Department by D.O.R.A. [= the Defence of the Realm Act], which were delegated to town and urban district councils, enabled them to take possession of any unoccupied land for the purpose of letting it as allotments. 1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) ii. 19 The Local Government Act 1894..created elected urban district councils (UDCs) and rural district councils (RDCs), which were based on consolidated sanitary districts. < as lemmas |
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