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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A borough of northwest England on the Mersey River south of Manchester.

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  • proper noun A metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England

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Examples

  • Daly was born in Stockport, the eldest of two girls.

    Tess Daly: the interview Elizabeth Day 2010

  • I don’t know enough about the former two to comment - although the Lib Dems success in local elections in North Norfolk and Stockport is a good omen for them.

    Who's Worried Now? 2005

  • Recently we have had similiar examples from the Fire Service and a school in Stockport.

    Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • On Wednesday, officers arrested Miss Leighton at her flat in Heaviley, Stockport, which is a mile away from the hospital.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • On Wednesday, officers arrested Miss Leighton at her flat in Heaviley, Stockport, which is a mile away from the hospital.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Rebecca Leighton, 27, was arrested on Wednesday morning at her home a mile away from her workplace at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, which is at the centre of the inquiry into the tampering of medication.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Rebecca Leighton, 27, was arrested on Wednesday morning at her home a mile away from her workplace at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, which is at the centre of the inquiry into the tampering of medication.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Rebecca Leighton, 27, was arrested on Wednesday morning at her home a mile away from her workplace at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, which is at the centre of the inquiry into the tampering of medication.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • But the 200 folk who call Stockport home are, in typical bush spirit, banding together

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • If the policy is taken to its logical conclusion, a local authority such as Stockport metropolitan borough council, for example, would eventually have only a handful of secondary schools serving its 50 square miles.

    Another Lib Dem MP on education 2005

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