Arrondissement vs. Borough
Arrondissementnoun
An administrative division in some French- or Dutch-speaking countries
Boroughnoun
(obsolete) A fortified town.
Arrondissementnoun
(Quebec) A borough, a submunicipal administrative division
Boroughnoun
(rare) A town or city.
Arrondissementnoun
A subdivision of a department.
Boroughnoun
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
Arrondissement
An arrondissement (UK: , US: , French: [aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃] (listen)) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands.
Boroughnoun
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
Boroughnoun
An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
Boroughnoun
Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
Boroughnoun
A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
Boroughnoun
An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
Boroughnoun
The pledge or surety thus given.
Boroughnoun
In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Boroughnoun
The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
Boroughnoun
An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
Boroughnoun
one of the administrative divisions of a large city
Boroughnoun
an English town that forms the constituency of a member of Parliament
Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
