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borough

/bur-oh, buhr-oh/US // ˈbɜr oʊ, ˈbʌr oʊ //UK // (ˈbʌrə) //

区,地区,市镇,市区

Related Words

precinct分区,分局,辖区,辖区内district地区,区,区域,小区ward监护人,监护室,监护权,监狱community社区,共同体,群体,社群

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an incorporated municipality smaller than a city.
    • : one of the five administrative divisions of New York City.
    • : British. an urban community incorporated by royal charter, similar to an incorporated city or municipality in the U.S.a town, area, or constituency represented by a Member of Parliament. a fortified town organized as and having some of the powers of an independent country.
    • : an administrative division similar to a county in other states.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounincorporated municipality smaller than a city
Synonyms
district地区,区,区域,小区precinct分区,分局,辖区,辖区内community社区,共同体,群体,社群ward监护人,监护室,监护权,监狱

Examples

  • The small borough had to arrange a “special emergency appropriation” to come up with Caruso’s cash and paid in installments.

  • Queensbridge consists of 26 Y-shaped buildings in the shadow of the bridge that connects midtown Manhattan with the borough of Queens.

  • The list of cities where renting is a better deal than buying includes Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City.

  • The virus was taking the worst toll in the Bronx, and Bronxwood sat within the borough’s hardest-hit ZIP code, although it would be weeks until anyone would know this.

  • Top administrative judges as a result moved her to the Bronx that year, and she handled both civil and criminal matters in the borough until her retirement.

  • Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president, pushed back against that view.

  • The borough officially became the least affordable place to live in America.

  • Take, for example, the borough of the Bronx in New York City.

  • The disadvantage for the borough is its location in a big blue state.

  • This point was not missed by the Queens Borough President, Melinda Katz.

  • He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."

  • At the end of 1881 there were 93,776 children in the borough between the ages of three and thirteen.

  • Lockmakers are not so numerous here as they once were, though several well known patentees still have their works in the borough.

  • Two Irish soldiers being stationed in a borough in the west of England, got into a conversation respecting their quarters.

  • Here we are eleven miles from the Borough, and at the end of the first stage out of London in the old days of the mail-coaches.

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