Boroughs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOROUGHS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• BOROUGH, an incorporated town, also BRUGH
• a town or district which is an administrative unit.
• a town (as distinct from a city) with a corporation and privileges granted by a royal charter.
• a town sending representatives to Parliament.
• an administrative division of London.
• a municipal corporation in certain US states.
• each of five divisions of New York City.
• (in Alaska) a district corresponding to a county elsewhere in the US.

Words related to BOROUGHS

borough13

Words that contain BOROUGHS

farboroughs20 yarboroughs20 headboroughs22 tharboroughs21 thirdboroughs23 interboroughs19

How to use BOROUGHS in a sentence

• There were only one hundred and thirty boroughs who received writs of summons from Edward I.
• There are well-to-do districts of London, whole boroughs, such as Hampstead, where the death-rate is considerably lower than the ordinary rural rate.
• Boroughs were bought and sold in open market, and many of them had a recognized price, so much for the current session, so much more if in perpetuity.
• After a while, as cities and boroughs grew in importance, they sent representative burghers to the shire-mote.
• There are the cities and boroughs, their official business more complex and laborious, and in most cases receiving much higher compensation.
• Even the lesser boroughs became not merely the abodes of agriculturists but the homes of organised trading communities.
• I have before my mind the Carnarvon Boroughs bye election of 1890.
• Some of the boroughs, especially in Cornwall, were tiny villages.
• Only twenty-three boroughs, the City of London and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, retained double-member representation.
• The boroughs of Buckingham and Wycombe have separate commissions of the peace.
• The representation increased as the towns acquired representative rights, until in 1603 the county with its boroughs made a total return of fourteen members.
• It appears that four boroughs revived their charters, which they had formerly neglected.
• And as the first parliament of Charles consisted of four hundred and ninety-four members, we may infer that James created ten new boroughs.
• Chief baron Gilbert thinks, that the reason why taxes always began with the commons or burgesses was, that they were limited by the instructions of their boroughs.
• Pitt did not adopt this prayer, but demanded the sweeping away of all rotten boroughs, and the establishment of an equal representation.
• That it is notorious that a similar practice is openly resorted to in many of the cities and boroughs of the United Kingdom.
• Some would give them members only as a sequel of the disfranchisement of corrupt boroughs.
• They also proposed to decrease the numbers of members for boroughs, giving to such boroughs compensation by means of a fixed sum to be paid annually for a certain number of years.
• Such had been the representatives of those close boroughs, and he much doubted if by a reformed system more able members would be introduced into that house.
• Having made that provision for cities or boroughs, he would continue the integrity of the counties, and propose that each county should return four members.
• The bill arranged all the boroughs into two classes, according to their population, the larger boroughs being divided into wards.
• With regard to councillors, the qualification in the seven large boroughs was to consist in having property worth L1000, and in the other towns, property worth L5000.
• In the seven large boroughs, and likewise in Londonderry, Sligo, Dungannon, and Drogheda, where the population exceeded 15,000, there would be a division of wards.
• By the end of July the elections for English cities and boroughs were nearly over, and the relative strength of parties was little changed as regarded the Whigs.
• Penryn and East Retford were rotten boroughs, with only a handful of constituents.
• Their first step was to divide the London boroughs into six groups according to the average number of domestic servants for 100 families in each.
• Lord Rockingham offered his influence on behalf of Burke at Malton, one of the family boroughs in Yorkshire, and thither Burke in no high spirits betook himself.

Similar words containing BOROUGH without suffix s

borough13 farborough19 yarborough19 farboroughs20 headborough21 tharborough20 yarboroughs20 headboroughs22 interborough18 tharboroughs21 thirdborough22 thirdboroughs23 interboroughs19

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