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1. township
   [n] - an administrative division of a county
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2. township
   In South Africa, an urban settlement designated for non-white residents by the apartheid government 1948-94. Townships such as Soweto (South Western Township), Johannesburg, a pre-existing...
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3. Township
   Town'ship noun 1. The district or territory of a town. » In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain po...
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4. township
   1. The district or territory of a town. ... In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and provi...
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5. township
   noun an administrative division of a county; `the town is responsible for snow removal`
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6. Township
   • (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. • (n.) The district or territory of a town. • (n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
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7. township
   (from the article `Cape Town`) South Africa`s Group Areas Act of 1966 consolidated earlier acts aimed at enforcing the policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, and it ... ...of the urban space, while other sectors and peripheral localities were set aside for nonwhites; many of these latter areas were initially devoted ... [2 ...
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8. township
   unit of government found primarily in the northeast and north central United States; it is a subdivision of a county and is usually 36 square miles ... [2 related articles]
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9. township
   township: see town.
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10. township
    In South Africa, an urban settlement designated for non-white residents by the apartheid government 1948–94. Townships such as Soweto (South Western Township), Johannesburg, a pre-existing shanty town, were created on the edges of major towns and cities. Their purpose was to control and preserve a local black workforce while ensuring s...
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11. Township
    However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they are invariably settlements too small to be considered urban. In the Scottish Highlands the term describes a very small agrarian community, usually a local rural or semi-rural government within a county....
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12. Township
    (Canada) The term `township` generally means the district or area associated with a town. However in some systems no town needs to be involved. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semi-rural government wit...
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13. Township
    (England) In England, a `township` (Latin - villa) is a local division or district of a large pages=3308-->--> A township may or may not be coterminous with a chapelry, manor, or any other minor area of local administration. The township is to be distinguished from the following: `Town...
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14. Township
    (South Africa) In South Africa, the term `township` and `location` usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban living areas that, from the late 19^th century until the end of Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (principally black Africans and Coloureds, but also wor...
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15. Township
    (United States) A `township` in the United States is a small geographic area. Townships range in size from 6 to 54 square miles (15.6 km² to 140.4 km²), with 36 square miles (93 km²) being the norm. The term is used in three ways. #A survey township is simply a geog...
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16. Township
    (New Jersey) A `township`, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. As a political entity, a township is a full-fledged municipality, on par with any town, city, borough, or village, collecting pr...
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17. Township
    (Scotland) . In Scotland a crofting township is a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a substantial tract of unimproved upland grazing. Like older Scottish landmeasurements, such as the davoch, quarter...
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18. Township
    (Pennsylvania) A `township` in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America, is a unit of local government (see civil township) subordinate to a county, and distinct from cities and boroughs. Townships were established based on convenient geographical boundaries a...
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