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

  • A city of eastern China north-northwest of Nanjing in Jiangsu province.

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  • noun A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, China.

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Examples

  • Deng's lightning response says a lot about her scrappy roots, growing up in a poor town called Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province.

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  • He told me his uncle lived in Xuzhou, which is in northern Jiangsu, a bit of a distance from Wuxi.

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  • He told me his uncle lived in Xuzhou, which is in northern Jiangsu, a bit of a distance from Wuxi.

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  • The one that's earliest in it is Xuzhou which is I think a July timeframe is when its scheduled to be constructed.

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  • The one that's earliest in it is Xuzhou which is I think a July timeframe is when its scheduled to be constructed.

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  • The one that's earliest in it is Xuzhou which is I think a July timeframe is when its scheduled to be constructed.

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  • Beijing sent one of its latest and most powerful warships, the Xuzhou, to help evacuate its nationals from the fighting raging in Libya, but this effort was dwarfed by the rapid U.S. navy buildup off the North African coast.

    China's Mideast Headache Andrew Critchlow 2011

  • The state-run Xinhua news agency said the accident occurred in the city of Xuzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province, when the bus tried to avoid hitting another vehicle.

    Children Die in China Bus Accident Carlos Tejada 2011

  • XCMG, which is already listed in Shenzhen with a market capitalization equal to $7.4 billion, was founded in 1989 in Xuzhou and was originally called Xugong Construction Machinery Science & Technology.

    String of Asian IPOs to Test Market's Strength Yvonne Lee 2011

  • In Xuzhou, the company is in the midst of a major expansion of an excavator plant.

    Caterpillar Upbeat on China Economy James R. Hagerty 2011

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