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Rare spelling of colonizee. [A victim of colonization.]
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(US) A metropolitan area with one or more other metropolitan and or micropolitan area components defined with it.
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An important city, such as a capital city, inhabited by people from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds.
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Alternative form of dollar diplomacy [The effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.]
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The placement of low-income or minority communities in the proximity of environmentally hazardous or degraded environments, such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay.
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(usually capitalized) Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area pertaining to it; (of a city) metropolitan.
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A style of architecture and urban design associated with the American borough of Manhattan, New York, with tall buildings that support the norms of congestion and overpopulation.
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Of or pertaining to market urbanism.
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Relating to a megacorporation.
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A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a metropolis; a megacity.
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A very large city or urban complex; a metropolis.
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An inhabitant of a megapolis.
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The methods and art to exercise some control over devolved and decentralized decision-making organizations.
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The making of metapolicy; creation of policies concerning other policies or policy development.
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Focusing on a metropolis, or large city.
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(US) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
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(chiefly in the plural) Any new form of social inequality associated with modern cities.
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A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
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A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
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Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
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A large city that is the center of a metropolitan area; a metropolis.
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Synonym of central city (“the main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities”).
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The quality or state of being metropolitan.
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(obsolete) A metropolitan.
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metropolitan; pertaining to a metropolis
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An administrative system that is equivalent to a county or a prefecture and a department. It is used in Brazil as a third-level administration between state and micro-region.
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A very small or local government.
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A relatively small metropolis.
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An urban design movement that originated in the United States in the early 1980s, promoting environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.
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(Britain) A quango associated with local government rather than national government.
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A city located outside a metropolitan area
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As articulated by w:Daryl Copeland: in guerrilla diplomacy, the ability to connect with the global political economy of knowledge for the remedial application of scientific and technological capacity in order to engage specific threats and challenges, typically in support of security and regional development.
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The merged urban area of several close cities.
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