township
noun
town·ship
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Definition of township
1a
: town sense 5
b
: a unit of local government in some northeastern and north central states usually having a chief administrative officer or board
c
: an unorganized subdivision of the county in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
d
: an electoral and administrative district of the county in the southern U.S.
2
: a division of territory in surveys of U.S. public land containing 36 sections or 36 square miles
3
: an area in the Republic of South Africa that was segregated under apartheid for occupation by persons of non-European descent
4
: an ancient unit of administration in England identical in area with or a division of a parish
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State auditors obtained all of the Duke Energy invoices paid by the township from January 2014, through November 2017 and identified late payment charges totaling $33,182, Faber said. — Cincinnati.com, "Audit: Symmes Township paid over $33K in late fees," 10 Sep. 2019 The streets of Alexandra township, close to Johannesburg’s financial center, were littered Tuesday afternoon with brick shards and glass from buildings torched in overnight fires and debris from police battles with local groups. — Washington Post, "World Digest: Sept. 3, 2019," 3 Sep. 2019 After the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, when the police killed almost 70 protesters in a Gauteng township, Mr. Ibrahim’s band mates fled the country. — New York Times, "Abdullah Ibrahim: A Lifetime of Dreams and Resistance at the Piano," 31 July 2019 According to surveillance camera footage, Zhang was last seen with [the couple] on July 7 in front of the Golden Coast Hotel in Xiangshan township, Ningbo. — Fox News, "Chinese police race to find missing girl, 9, last seen with couple who committed suicide by drowning," 13 July 2019 Data are sparse but a national census in 2014 found that out of a population of 50m, 9.2m people had moved townships (the equivalent of counties) in their lifetime. — The Economist, "Myanmar’s countryside is emptying and its cities bursting," 11 July 2019 Schaup-Werner of Whitehall township, Pennsylvania, checked into the Bahia Principe resort in La Romana -- the same hotel where Holmes and Day died -- on May 25. — Doug Criss, CNN, "Your questions about the Dominican Republic tourist deaths, answered," 18 June 2019 The racino would be permitted in one of those six townships as well as Orland Township, where the state property is located. — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, "Horses, gambling may push aside plan for big housing development in Tinley Park," 14 June 2019 The squatter camp outside Lawley township, in the southwest of Johannesburg, stretches for miles against a bare hillside, without electricity, water, or toilets. — James Pogue, Harper's magazine, "The Myth of White Genocide," 10 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'township.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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township
noun
English Language Learners Definition of township
: a unit of local government in the U.S.
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township
noun
town·ship
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Kids Definition of township
1
: a unit of local government in some northeastern and north central states
2
: a division of territory in surveys of United States public lands containing 36 square miles (about 93 square kilometers)
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