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in-town

in-town is the alternative form of intown.

Meaning of intown

Adjective

intown (not comparable)

  1. Within a town.
    • Both the outlying and the intown communities might well experiment with novel forms of broad political participation and more effective local representation in larger political units.1997, Daniel Bell, Stephen Richards Graubard, “Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress”, in American Academy of Arts and Sciences, page 164

Questions about in-town

What is in-town the alternative form of?
In-town is the alternative form of intown.

Words near in-town in the dictionary

  1. in-store picking
  2. in-swinger
  3. in-swingers
  4. in-text
  5. in-toeing
  6. in-town
  7. in-tray
  8. in-tray exercise
  9. in-tray exercises
  10. in-trays
  11. in-tree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in-town (page history and authors); intown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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