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  • noun An extremely large city, metropolis or urban area.
  • noun The merged urban area of several close cities.

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Examples

  • Having a combined council, a "supercity", will certainly be challenging.

    ZDNet Australia 2010

  • Auckland's major community newspapers are urging city residents to fight the "supercity" with an email campaign directed at the Government.

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • A disappointed Manukau mayor Len Brown is urging Manukau residents to get talking about plans to run Auckland under a "supercity" council.

    unknown title 2009

  • A disappointed Manukau mayor Len Brown is urging Manukau residents to get talking about plans to run Auckland under a "supercity" council.

    unknown title 2009

  • Experts believe the 108-­story ICC, now the fourth-tallest tower in the world, is a significant step towards the supercity of the future, which will soar into the skies amid increasing population pressures.

    Skyscraper, Moneymaker Ron Gluckman 2011

  • But it all ends well - by 2046 the world has been rebuilt as a supercity with some really cool trains.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • But it all ends well - by 2046 the world has been rebuilt as a supercity with some really cool trains.

    History Of The World - Part I Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • If you were to put the nation's 30 largest cities side by side (hypothetically speaking), include in this supercity L.A.,

    Doug Levitt: On the Pornography of Devastation 2008

  • A greater threat to the supercity boom might come from the globalization that started it in the first place.

    Endless Light 2007

  • March 20th, 2009 at 1:06 am poker room application supercity promotion says:

    Think Progress » Brokaw: Hussein Execution ‘Resembled The Worst Kind Of Nightmare Out Of The Old American West’ 2007

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