plural of close borough

plural of county borough

(slang) Synonym of New York City

(historical) A borough that was represented in Parliament although it had very few voters.

A city or other place which acts as the center of government for a borough in Alaska, in the United States.

(Britain) A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors.

(UK) A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough.

(law, UK, obsolete) patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child

(historical) A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters.

A rotten borough or pocket borough.