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POCKET BOROUGH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("pocket borough" is a kind of...):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
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