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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 ofGreater Manchester ,England
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Examples
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Daly was born in Stockport, the eldest of two girls.
Tess Daly: the interview Elizabeth Day 2010
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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
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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
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On Wednesday, officers arrested Miss Leighton at her flat in Heaviley, Stockport, which is a mile away from the hospital.
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On Wednesday, officers arrested Miss Leighton at her flat in Heaviley, Stockport, which is a mile away from the hospital.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But the 200 folk who call Stockport home are, in typical bush spirit, banding together
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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.
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