1A town or district which is an administrative unit.

1. 1.1British A town (as distinct from a city) with a corporation and privileges granted by a royal charter.
   〈英〉（获皇家特许的）自治市镇
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   • Some boroughs and counties are quite repressive and others are very open.
   • What you would expect is that we get hold of the local borough commander or the unit head and ask them to first of all look into it.
   • This is simply unacceptable and flies in the face of numerous borough and county policies.
   • Now the borough council has invited town councillors to a meeting to discuss issues connected with the town centre and its regeneration.
   • But he said primary schools in Rochdale still received less money than the schools in other metropolitan boroughs and the council was looking to increase the amount.
   • Police moved one step closer to creating no drinking zones in Wilmslow and Handforth town centres as the borough council agreed the idea in principal.
   • In 2000, 117 people committed suicide in the county, with boroughs in East Lancashire having some of the highest death rates from people killing themselves.
   • Mr Ashton has contacted county council, borough council and parish council chiefs.
   • Their portion of council tax - being a unitary they set the borough and county parts as one - is 8.9 per cent.
   • However, during the 1870s chief constables in both counties and boroughs began to assert and exercise a greater measure of professional independence.
   • There are 16 places up for grabs on the youth forum, two for each of the county's districts and boroughs.
   • The society has been in talks with the borough and district councils about solutions to traffic congestion around the showground.
   • The findings were detailed in a report released alongside reviews of more than 200 districts and boroughs across the country.
   • And every other borough in the county is to be asked if they want the new bus services.
   • And Mr Davis warned that devolution would take power away from local communities and threaten ‘our historic counties, our ancient boroughs and our parishes’.
   • The situation with regard to the Chalet School appears to parallel that of the borough's primary unit for severely dyslexic pupils, now closing.
   • Let's also recognise that wherever we build in Basingstoke today, so to speak, tomorrow the planners will be looking elsewhere within the borough.
   • So the role of my team, as I say, is about developing approaches, developing policy, and then taking those out onto the boroughs and working with community safety units on boroughs.
   • Parish, borough and county councillor Alan Whittaker is a fierce opponent of a regional assembly.
   • I think we did need to have a focus on family friendly policies and some of the issues that do affect women, who remain a minority on my borough and elsewhere.

   Synonyms

   urban area, conurbation, municipality, township, settlement
2. 1.2British historical A town sending representatives to Parliament.
   〈英，史〉议会中有代表的市镇
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   • Kingston was one of England's earliest parliamentary boroughs.
   • He received various pensions, grants and sinecures from the crown, was a member of parliament for the borough of Warwick, and frequently served abroad.
   • In parliamentary boroughs with freeman franchises, the power to bestow the freedom was in effect a power to create electors, a consideration which clearly shaped its use.
   • It marked, nonetheless, the first occasion when the borough and county franchise served as the basis of parliamentary summons to the third estate.
   • Audley was a lawyer from Essex, who became town clerk of Colchester in 1514 and was elected to Parliament for the borough in 1523.
3. 1.3 An administrative division of London.
   伦敦市的行政区
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   • Smoking is likely to be banned in pubs, clubs and restaurants across Merton after the council joined the 32 other London boroughs in supporting a blanket ban.
   • The entire community rallied around the Polka when the ALG, which pools funding from the 33 London boroughs, announced its decision to discontinue funding the theatre in January.
   • Tomorrow is the last chance to register for the elections on May 2, when 174 English councils go to the polls, including all the London boroughs.
   • Her methods were honed teaching in a string of primary schools in relatively disadvantaged London boroughs.
   • All 70 schools in the London borough are to be handed to the trust by next summer.
   • While ISRM's guidelines, which were updated last year, are not law, Croydon Council is one of 12 London boroughs to have adopted them.
   • Currently operating in a number of London boroughs, the business offers various care packages ranging from a half-hour domestic call to 24-hour personal care plans.
   • So far he's been lucky to get away with it or else the council in the London borough where he lives has been particularly lax in chasing him up.
   • The action will mainly involve support staff in schools in around 13 of the 32 London boroughs.
   • The Teens & Toddlers program operates in two Los Angeles schools and in several boroughs in London.
   • Impoverished boroughs of London fail to succeed in providing school facilities for their children.
   • On a basic level, we pay the highest council tax of all the boroughs of London and this is set to rise significantly yet our wishes are continually ignored.
   • The strength of public feeling has led several residents to label it one of the dirtiest boroughs in London, putting the blame firmly at the council's door.
   • Why are the central London boroughs at the top of the table for UK business enterprise?
   • He said: ‘I was a councillor in a London borough and I did not feel the griping frustration then.’
   • His parent's were Swiss, and moved to set up a business in the eastern boroughs of London, where Ray was born (he still returns periodically to Switzerland to visit family).
   • The project covers 140 classrooms in 30 schools in the London borough.
   • A qualified science teacher with two years experience, Alex Dolan, also filmed at secondary schools in the London borough of Islington.
   • Avonmore primary, a state school in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, came 19th, with an aggregate score of 266.
   • The reception provided an opportunity for BME Councillors across the London boroughs to establish a network of support aimed at addressing the following key issues.
4. 1.4 A municipal corporation in certain US states.
   （美国某些州的）自治村镇
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   • Erie was incorporated as a borough in 1805, having previously formed a part of Mill Creek Township; divided into two wards in 1840; granted a city charter in 1851; and divided into four wards in 1858.
   • Northampton Borough Municipal Authority (NBMA), formed in 1940, provides water service in the Boroughs of Northampton and North Catasauqua and Allen Township in Northampton County, and the Borough of Coplay, Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County.
   • Aramingo is a borough crested out of the township of Northern Liberties, incorporated April 11,1850.
   • Alpine was created as a Bergen County, N.J. borough April 8, 1903 from area taken from Harrington Township.
   • The Borough of Princeton is committed to planning, coordinating and implementing programs and services which enhance, protect and promote the quality of life of all those who live, work and share in Princeton.
5. 1.5 Each of five divisions of New York City.
   美国纽约市的行政区（共五个）
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   • It is located in the southeastern corner of the borough of Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
   • What brought these thousands of men, women and children from all five boroughs of New York, and from neighboring New Jersey as well?
   • Of course, Manhattan is only one of New York's five boroughs.
   • The Moveable Museum now travels to schools, community centers, parks, street fairs and other neighborhood organizations throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
   • The course includes five boroughs in New York but doesn't go down to the district that has been devastated.
   • Two local schools—empty of students for the holiday—were turned into emergency centres to prepare for the injured, as firefighters raced from all over New York's five boroughs to help.
   • People bring in arrowheads from New York's five boroughs, snake skins from Central Park.
   • Brooklyn, the home of 2.4 million citizens, is one of the largest of the five boroughs of the city of New York.
   • Of New York City's five boroughs, only the Bronx rests on the continent.
   • And we're in the process of expanding that right now by putting in an interop system that expands from Suffolk County into the five boroughs of New York City.
   • The NYPD patrols the five boroughs of New York City.
   • It easily outsells them in four of New York's five boroughs—Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
   • From statistics provided by Zusman, there are about 750 community gardens in about five boroughs of the City.
   • He returned to the USA in 1975 and in the same year he created a series of outdoor, environmental sculptures for five New York boroughs.
   • Manhattan, where Central Park is located, is one of the five boroughs of New York—it consists of the financial district and famous stores such as Macy's and Saks of Fifth Avenue.
   • Loan default collections for borrowers in the five boroughs of New York City also will be put on hold automatically until January, Paige said.
   • However, it is true that certain spaces, like the five boroughs of New York or London, England, are more multicultural than others.
   • Its energy, and sometimes its direct support, spread into New York's five boroughs.
   • The five boroughs that make up New York City account for more than 6% of US GDP.
   • The research team worked with twelve adolescents from the five boroughs of New York City.
6. 1.6 (in Alaska) a district corresponding to a county elsewhere in the US.
   美国阿拉斯加州的行政区（相当于其他州的县）
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   • The Borough represents the best of Alaska: over 12,000 square miles (8.2 million acres) of extraordinary scenic and wild country, the highest mountain on the continent (Mt. McKinley, 20,320 feet), extensive and productive natural resources, a diverse economy and approximately 1,893 residents.
   • The City Clerk's Office has the official version of the Denali Borough Code.
   • The Kodiak Island Borough welcomes you to Alaska’s beautiful Emerald Isle, its government and services.
   • Welcome to the City and Borough of Sitka, Alaska.
   • Stretching from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to the easternmost Aleutian Islands, the Aleutians East Borough is like no other place on earth.

   Synonyms

   district, quarter, part, section, zone, precinct, locality, neighbourhood, side