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POCKET BOROUGH

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• POCKET BOROUGH (noun)
The noun POCKET BOROUGH has 1 sense:

1. a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family

Familiarity information: POCKET BOROUGH used as a noun is very rare.

• POCKET BOROUGH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("pocket borough" is a kind of...):

borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)

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