county council

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Noun1.county council - the elected governing body of a county
governance, governing body, organisation, administration, brass, establishment, organization - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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county council

n (Brit) → consiglio di contea
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This act for extending county council control is practically his bill; so you may say he's in the government even before he's in the House."
"I bet the squire's a bigger pot than the county council in that county.
Why don't we give the squire's land to the squire's tenants, instead of dragging in the county council?"
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He talked of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring's Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone's chintzes and crinolines.
More people were run over in the streets upon that one day, than in the previous three months, and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westminster Bridge, and narrowly escaped disaster by running ashore--it was low water--on the mud on the south side.
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Startled by this discovery and seeing herself pacing a circle all the days of her life round Picadilly Circus she was greatly relieved to pass a building put up by the London County Council for Night Schools.
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Tipperary, one of the top three county councils in the country by area, only built 20 and Clare only managed two.
Fine Gael IS the party for landlords; Private property owners to be paid almost [euro]1billion; Local authorities fall short of home building targets; OFFICIAL
Of the 912 seats in city and county councils across the nation, the NPP grabbed 16 in the special municipalities of Taipei, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Taoyuan, and in Keelung City and Hsinchu City, as well as in Hsinchu, Miaoli, Changhua and Yunlin counties.
Smaller parties in Taiwan make ground in city, county councils
The report, which compares the performance of the country's 34 county councils, places Warwickshire in the top spot for "best value" public satisfaction.
Best value council; REPORT
Their decision follows last month's publication of the Local Government White Paper, which invited councils in shire areas either to bid for unitary status, in which services are provided by single all-purpose authorities, or an enhanced version of the existing two-tier system, where people receive services from county councils working alongside district or borough councils.
County keen on going solo; Labour group favours single council option
In Ellesmere Port and Neston, reducing the discount to the minimum 10% resulted in the district and county councils - facing pressure from government to keep council tax rises below 5% - collecting an extra pounds 97,000.
Council tax discounts slashed; Cheshire tries to reduce the number of second homes

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