Metroplex

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs. US

    "Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex"

Example

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"The collection of small urban centers and the multinucleated metropolitan subcenters is the twenty-first-century metroplex that provides citizens with opportunities to develop different lifestyles in new environmental settings. In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers or interests."

Etymology

Blend of metropolitan + complex, originally coined as a marketing term for the Dallas–Fort Worth conurbation.

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