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Definition of township in English: townshipnoun ˈtaʊnʃɪpˈtaʊnˌʃɪp 1(in South Africa) a suburb or city of predominantly black occupation, formerly officially designated for black occupation by apartheid legislation. （南非）（原按种族隔离政策，经官方划分的）黑人居住区 as modifier township theatre Example sentencesExamples - As I was first working on this lecture, I went to a theatre in London, which was showing a play acted by black actors about life years ago in the townships of South Africa.
- Currently, the Saunderses support more than 300 orphans in several shanty townships dotted around the city of Lusaka.
- Boxing is a rough trade and South Africa's crime-ridden townships and inner cities are rough places, with widespread poverty and glaring disparities of income.
- Some are in townships and inner city suburbs where banks have been reluctant to lend to potential buyers.
- That's where many young men in some of South Africa's poor townships are headed these days.
- Gaza and the West Bank have become the Middle East's version of the South African townships during the apartheid regime.
- It's reflected in the privatization that's happening to the people in the townships in South Africa, and in what's going on in the streets of Toronto and Halifax.
- The farm worker is forced to take refuge in a shack settlement in a black township and pick up the threads of his disrupted life as best he can.
- Instead, the accounts of life in the black townships of South Africa resonate with his descriptions of Robben Island as a place that intensifies the degradation and violence of apartheid.
- For the last two years he has spent two weeks in the summer in some of the poorest townships in South Africa, playing rugby and telling the kids about his faith.
- In the world of dance, one of South Africa's toughest townships may seem an unpromising place to start an academy for classical ballet.
- Mandela came of age politically in a mass movement based in the dusty streets of South Africa's townships, before finding himself forced underground and eventually jailed.
- Schonberg started the township ballet class during South Africa's racist apartheid days after some dinner party guess set him off.
- The destruction of homes caused by incessant rains in many of the squatter townships that litter our cities has now become an annual event.
- This hip hop act are from South Africa and will be bringing listeners the raw and rhythmic sounds of hip hop from the townships and cities of South Africa.
- The tour included visiting newly-elected members of the African National Congress and black townships.
- The city was run by a white council, the black township was run by the government, the Department of Bantu Administration.
- The site is close to Khayelitsha, a township of 500,000 black South Africans who suffered under apartheid and still live in poverty, with a 90 per cent unemployment rate.
- And in this post-apartheid era you would soon be either dead or very sorry for yourself if you tried to do in any black South African township what Leon and I did in 1979.
- The City of Johannesburg is set to embark on a major drive to put up and repair lights on major roads and in streets of the suburbs, townships and informal settlements of the city.
2South African A new area being developed for residential or industrial use by speculators. 〈南非〉（投机商所开发的）住宅（或工业）新区 Example sentencesExamples - Although the area is quite rural, local residents feared the township, which grew by 35 percent in the last decade, was ripe for development.
- What residents of the two townships hope to do is showcase their hospitality.
- He said redeployment, which saw teachers moved from schools with low teacher-pupil ratios, often to townships or rural areas, had ended in eight of the nine provinces.
- The difficulty so far has been reaching schools in the townships and rural areas.
- Before dawn, protesters set roadblocks of rocks and debris to prevent residents of the neighbouring Mabvuku and Tafara townships from travelling to work, witnesses said.
- On the other hand, schools in townships say they have lots of room.
- In an effort to contribute to community development in the two townships, the NGO has taken up the challenge to improve the livelihood of its people.
- The idea hit Goodrich last year after he saw how the many schools in the townships and rural areas where he delivered his second-hand furniture suffered from a lack of computer equipment.
- Officers-in-charge of residential townships where the associations are formed are involved in the training of members of the community who join the associations.
- Stanbic Bank Zambia has embarked on an expansion programme that will see the opening of new outlets in Matero township and Kabulonga residential areas before going to other parts of the country.
- An area surrounding Rosh Pinah has been de-proclaimed to allow for the development of the Roshkor township.
- Thanks to the Zambia Social Investment Fund, residents of the two townships are now happy because their dream has become a reality.
- This swimming pool is the first of its kind in a developing township.
- It's a circuit train that services the townships and the western industrial areas of Johannesburg.
- Much of this money will go towards developing parks in townships such as Diepkloof, Mofolo, Klipspruit, and in informal settlements such as Diepsloot and Orange Farm.
- Angry residents from the surrounding townships, some of whom arrived in the early hours of the morning, went home disappointed and empty-handed.
- The centre is on a one-hectare site on the main road to the Berlin industrial and residential townships.
- The court heard that Mr Musonda used to park the motor vehicle at Changa Namai Trading area in Kwacha township for advertising.
- Kheny said that so much of land was required not only for the roads but also for the five townships that will come up which will include corporate, commercial, heritage, industrial and eco-tourism townships.
- Burma road was the street that connected not only Kabwata but also all other residential areas to other locations or townships on the route.
3North American A division of a county with some corporate powers. 〈北美〉乡（县以下的行政区） Example sentencesExamples - The generally accepted figure for our total tax load from townships, counties, states and the federals is 33 percent of GDP.
- Young families are moving toward the east and south of the township, away from the Allegheny County line, an analysis of U.S. Census figures indicates.
- In southwestern Pennsylvania, four rural townships in Somerset, Indiana and Greene counties are hosts to new prisons built within the last few years.
- Since then, many counties and townships have switched to an electronic system eager to prevent future problems.
- This USDA publication contains a list of these counties, municipalities and townships.
- For example, when writing a place, use township, county or province, country or state.
- In Warren County there were six entire townships where voter registration increased by 28% to 79%.
- What matters is that we continue to make the world a little better place - here in our homes, on our blocks, in our communities, across the township, across the county.
- North and South Fayette townships in Allegheny County posted population gains of 28 percent and 19 percent, respectively.
- We control for unobserved heterogeneity across townships using a set of dummy variables representing the 15 townships in the county.
- So Rawal, an engineer, served on the township's library board, helping Butler County automate and electronically link its seven largest libraries.
- Counties, boroughs and townships were imported from England.
- It's not just this town itself, but the whole of this county, this township that weaves all of us together like a blended family.
- The letter confirmed their discussions with respect to a transfer of the franchise ownership from Bruce County to a group of townships in Huron County.
- Pooling efforts is a growing practice among Pennsylvania boroughs, townships and even school districts.
- In more than one county and township there's a law on the books to deal with riding in a horse-drawn buggy while intoxicated.
- There are Democrats in every rural township and county - young and old alike.
- So, you start building the necessary network of transportation, of water management, of power distribution, of creating new townships which are centers to service these farmers.
- The localities are arranged alphabetically by county and then by township within each county.
- The Legislature must uphold the current rights of townships and counties to enact zoning ordinances that regulate development in their communities, including large feedlots.
- 3.1 A district six miles square.
6英里见方的地区 Example sentencesExamples - By the end of the nineteenth century, most of the continent had been squared off into townships, and sections.
- Elsewhere the pattern reflects the rectilinear network of roads, which in turn derives from the early surveys of the territory based on uniform square townships six miles on a side.
Synonyms borough, town, city, district, administrative division
4British historical A manor or parish as a territorial division. 〈英，史〉采邑，堂区 - 4.1 A small town or village forming part of a large parish.
（大堂区下的）小城镇，乡村 Example sentencesExamples - Another plan to release plots of land to build a new community in the once-thriving crofting township of Stoul, on Loch Nevis, was vetoed by the Mackays.
- A number of the signs have cropped up around the township and town council Chairman John Brodwell has condemned the advertisers.
- A 14th century manor house situated in Samlesbury, a small township on the south bank of the River Ribble, Samlesbury Hall is well worth a visit if only for its historical interest.
- He then became an assistant organiser in a village and township.
- That is something which has been recognised by church leaders and councillors in Queensbury who are campaigning to be allowed to join the growing number of villages and townships in the Bradford district which have a parish council.
- Plans to close community beat offices in the townships have been heavily criticised by Pennine councillors.
Synonyms urban area, conurbation, municipality, borough, settlement
5Australian NZ A small town. 〈澳／新西兰〉小镇 Example sentencesExamples - After their inspection of the mine and town, Goyder promised that a township would be surveyed without delay.
- There is no township of Greta; it is a farming district that is occasionally referred to as Kelly Country because it was the home of Ned Kelly.
- As the line did not run through or near the Edeowie township the Government decided to survey new towns at Edeowie and Parachilna.
- The experiments were conducted at Boes Rd located on the outskirts of the Hastings township in Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria.
- The town of Gladstone originally started as two townships.
- By the turn of the 20th century most of the smaller townships in the province had their own papers.
- ‘From the air, Tac Town looks like a township and the different buildings simulate different roles,’ he explained.
OriginOld English tūnscipe 'the inhabitants of a village' (see town, -ship). Definition of township in US English: townshipnounˈtounˌSHipˈtaʊnˌʃɪp 1North American A division of a county with some corporate powers. 〈北美〉乡（县以下的行政区） Example sentencesExamples - It's not just this town itself, but the whole of this county, this township that weaves all of us together like a blended family.
- The Legislature must uphold the current rights of townships and counties to enact zoning ordinances that regulate development in their communities, including large feedlots.
- In Warren County there were six entire townships where voter registration increased by 28% to 79%.
- So Rawal, an engineer, served on the township's library board, helping Butler County automate and electronically link its seven largest libraries.
- Young families are moving toward the east and south of the township, away from the Allegheny County line, an analysis of U.S. Census figures indicates.
- There are Democrats in every rural township and county - young and old alike.
- We control for unobserved heterogeneity across townships using a set of dummy variables representing the 15 townships in the county.
- North and South Fayette townships in Allegheny County posted population gains of 28 percent and 19 percent, respectively.
- The letter confirmed their discussions with respect to a transfer of the franchise ownership from Bruce County to a group of townships in Huron County.
- In more than one county and township there's a law on the books to deal with riding in a horse-drawn buggy while intoxicated.
- In southwestern Pennsylvania, four rural townships in Somerset, Indiana and Greene counties are hosts to new prisons built within the last few years.
- Since then, many counties and townships have switched to an electronic system eager to prevent future problems.
- Pooling efforts is a growing practice among Pennsylvania boroughs, townships and even school districts.
- What matters is that we continue to make the world a little better place - here in our homes, on our blocks, in our communities, across the township, across the county.
- The generally accepted figure for our total tax load from townships, counties, states and the federals is 33 percent of GDP.
- For example, when writing a place, use township, county or province, country or state.
- So, you start building the necessary network of transportation, of water management, of power distribution, of creating new townships which are centers to service these farmers.
- The localities are arranged alphabetically by county and then by township within each county.
- This USDA publication contains a list of these counties, municipalities and townships.
- Counties, boroughs and townships were imported from England.
- 1.1 A district six miles square.
6英里见方的地区 Example sentencesExamples - By the end of the nineteenth century, most of the continent had been squared off into townships, and sections.
- Elsewhere the pattern reflects the rectilinear network of roads, which in turn derives from the early surveys of the territory based on uniform square townships six miles on a side.
Synonyms borough, town, city, district, administrative division
2(in South Africa) a suburb or city of predominantly black occupation, formerly officially designated for black occupation by apartheid legislation. （南非）（原按种族隔离政策，经官方划分的）黑人居住区 Example sentencesExamples - Boxing is a rough trade and South Africa's crime-ridden townships and inner cities are rough places, with widespread poverty and glaring disparities of income.
- Some are in townships and inner city suburbs where banks have been reluctant to lend to potential buyers.
- The tour included visiting newly-elected members of the African National Congress and black townships.
- The farm worker is forced to take refuge in a shack settlement in a black township and pick up the threads of his disrupted life as best he can.
- The destruction of homes caused by incessant rains in many of the squatter townships that litter our cities has now become an annual event.
- Mandela came of age politically in a mass movement based in the dusty streets of South Africa's townships, before finding himself forced underground and eventually jailed.
- Instead, the accounts of life in the black townships of South Africa resonate with his descriptions of Robben Island as a place that intensifies the degradation and violence of apartheid.
- This hip hop act are from South Africa and will be bringing listeners the raw and rhythmic sounds of hip hop from the townships and cities of South Africa.
- The City of Johannesburg is set to embark on a major drive to put up and repair lights on major roads and in streets of the suburbs, townships and informal settlements of the city.
- The site is close to Khayelitsha, a township of 500,000 black South Africans who suffered under apartheid and still live in poverty, with a 90 per cent unemployment rate.
- For the last two years he has spent two weeks in the summer in some of the poorest townships in South Africa, playing rugby and telling the kids about his faith.
- And in this post-apartheid era you would soon be either dead or very sorry for yourself if you tried to do in any black South African township what Leon and I did in 1979.
- In the world of dance, one of South Africa's toughest townships may seem an unpromising place to start an academy for classical ballet.
- Currently, the Saunderses support more than 300 orphans in several shanty townships dotted around the city of Lusaka.
- The city was run by a white council, the black township was run by the government, the Department of Bantu Administration.
- Schonberg started the township ballet class during South Africa's racist apartheid days after some dinner party guess set him off.
- That's where many young men in some of South Africa's poor townships are headed these days.
- It's reflected in the privatization that's happening to the people in the townships in South Africa, and in what's going on in the streets of Toronto and Halifax.
- As I was first working on this lecture, I went to a theatre in London, which was showing a play acted by black actors about life years ago in the townships of South Africa.
- Gaza and the West Bank have become the Middle East's version of the South African townships during the apartheid regime.
3British historical A manor or parish as a territorial division. 〈英，史〉采邑，堂区 - 3.1 A small town or village forming part of a large parish.
（大堂区下的）小城镇，乡村 Example sentencesExamples - A number of the signs have cropped up around the township and town council Chairman John Brodwell has condemned the advertisers.
- Another plan to release plots of land to build a new community in the once-thriving crofting township of Stoul, on Loch Nevis, was vetoed by the Mackays.
- That is something which has been recognised by church leaders and councillors in Queensbury who are campaigning to be allowed to join the growing number of villages and townships in the Bradford district which have a parish council.
- He then became an assistant organiser in a village and township.
- A 14th century manor house situated in Samlesbury, a small township on the south bank of the River Ribble, Samlesbury Hall is well worth a visit if only for its historical interest.
- Plans to close community beat offices in the townships have been heavily criticised by Pennine councillors.
Synonyms urban area, conurbation, municipality, borough, settlement
OriginOld English tūnscipe ‘the inhabitants of a village’ (see town, -ship). |