METROPOLITAN


Meaning of METROPOLITAN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a metropolitan area (= a very large city )

major metropolitan areas such as Delhi, Bombay, and Calcutta

Metropolitan Police, the

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

area

Industrialization in rural areas has increased, and has been more rapid than in metropolitan areas.

But price changes, as shown in the index charts below, will vary in the 10 metropolitan areas examined.

These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts.

Consider that the Phoenix metropolitan area is in the midst of an apartment construction boom.

In the London metropolitan area growth was in the order of 23.5 percent, from 22,225 to 27,449.

Home will create a private network packed in major metropolitan areas .

The most important variation from Redcliffe-Maud as far as the structure of local government was concerned was the addition of two further metropolitan areas .

This is the size of any major metropolitan area .

authority

His second task was to preserve and exercise the metropolitan authority of his see.

This contrasts with the picture in the metropolitan authorities where they had 15% fewer candidates.

Unit costs in metropolitan authorities have been consistently higher than in the shire counties.

The situation is further confused by the abolition of the metropolitan authorities and the probable demise of the structure plan system.

borough

And riders are also being asked to tell council leaders what they need in Britain's biggest metropolitan borough , Doncaster.

Sixty years later Camberwell was a metropolitan borough whose population had multiplied more than six fold to 259,339.

The metropolitan boroughs also vary in size with a minimum near 200,000.

Somewhat more of a variation occurs if we examine the eight capped metropolitan boroughs .

Of the 19 LEAs involved, 12 were metropolitan boroughs and 7 were counties.

London boroughs spent more than other metropolitan boroughs, which in turn spent more than county authorities.

county

From 1841 to 1911 the national increase was twenty million, over half of which took place in the metropolitan counties .

It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties .

I am not claiming to have considered the whole of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and its satellites.

These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts.

The smallest metropolitan county had, therefore, a population approximately double that of the largest unitary authority.

The Labour Party controlled all six metropolitan counties when they were formed in 1974.

Then, in 1986 the Thatcher government abolished the metropolitan counties .

Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties , but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities.

district

For example, non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts are required to appoint chief education officers and directors of social services.

In most years, the Labour Party also controls most of the metropolitan districts .

The Conservatives' success in Solihull gave them control of their first metropolitan district council since 1995.

It would be a mistake to identify the metropolitan districts as urban-industrial and the periphery as rural.

As such it complements the introduction of unitary development plans for the metropolitan districts .

Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties, but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities.

It is a series of villages in the south-east of Wakefield metropolitan district which were essentially rural in character.

Strategic planning guidance exists in all the metropolitan districts , including Tyne and Wear.

police

In London, the metropolitan police - established in 1829 - continue to be under the direct control of the Home Secretary.

In the metropolitan police there is only one fraud squad officer for every hundred officers.

In the meantime, the authorities had added light anti-tank weapons and recoilless rifles to the arsenal of the metropolitan police force.

I could substantiate the information that Mr. Docherty gave me through contact with the West Yorkshire metropolitan police .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Some workers can only afford homes outside metropolitan areas.

the metropolitan authorities

the Miami metropolitan area

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Alternative accommodation in the metropolitan area for a new breed of large steamships had become a matter of some urgency.

But the idea of one consolidated government for metropolitan Tucson quickly faded when Volgy left office.

Home will create a private network packed in major metropolitan areas.

It has $ 42 billion in outstanding mortgage loans among 502, 000 families in metropolitan Los Angeles.

It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.

The Chamber of Commerce promoted a sleek, sophisticated image of metropolitan Tucson as a good place to live.

The distinction between the metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas lay in the distribution of services between the counties and their districts.

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