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metropolitan

adjective as in concerning a city

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He has previously served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command within the Metropolitan Police.

From BBC

This ushered in a wave of reforms, including the expansion of the officer candidate pool, which had previously been limited to members of the Metropolitan Division.

Gold said another key question is how the city’s project at the Hyperion plant in Playa Del Rey will fit with the Metropolitan Water District’s separate plan for another recycling facility in Carson, called Pure Water Southern California.

To help cover the cost of the new construction, the city has secured more than $400 million from the state and federal governments and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Perhaps, then, the story about big cities softening up on Trump reflects not the salience of place and an attention to local governance, but a decline of those things, and a regression of the metropolitan voter toward the national mean.

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