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market towns

market towns is the plural of market town.

Meaning of market town

Noun

market town (plural market towns)

  1. A town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market.
    • P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located...1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2

Questions about market towns

What is market towns the plural of?
Market towns is the plural of market town.

Words near market towns in the dictionary

  1. market supplement
  2. market supplements
  3. market timing
  4. market timings
  5. market town
  6. market towns
  7. market urbanism
  8. market urbanist
  9. market urbanists
  10. market value
  11. market values

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