Urban Center

Definition: Urban Center

1. A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city".

Commercial Usage: Urban Center

Domain	Title
Books	Cahokia: City of the Sun: Prehistoric Urban Center in the American Bottom (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Urban Center

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Auckland has more vehicles than any other urban center in New Zealand. (references)
		In 2000, the value of the safety and security market is estimated to be USD 141 million with an expected growth rate of 10-15% in 2001-2002. Budapest, the capital city and the largest urban center with over twenty- percent of Hungary's total population, also has the largest incident of auto theft and burglary. (references)
Political Economy	South Africa	The IFP continues to hold a slim majority in Kwa-Zulu Natal and its urban center, Durban. (references)
Travel	Mexico	With a population of some 20 million people, Mexico City is a cosmopolitan, world-class city with all the advantages and disadvantages of a huge urban center. (references)
Worker Rights	Nigeria	Traffickers take advantage of a cultural tradition of "fostering," under which it is acceptable to send a child to live and work with a more prosperous family in an urban center in return for educational and vocational advancement. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: Urban Center

Language		Translations for "urban center"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		urbancentral (urban centre), telefoncentral (central office, central office switch, central office switching system, CO switch, dial office, exchange, office, telephone central office, telephone exchange, urban centre). (various references)

Dutch		eindcentrale (central office, end office, terminal exchange, urban centre). (various references)

Finnish		solmukeskus (tandem, urban centre), paikalliskeskus (urban centre). (various references)

French		centre urbain (urban centre, urban core). (various references)

German		Stadtfernamt (urban centre). (various references)

Greek		αστικό τηλεφωνικό κέντρο (urban centre). (various references)

Italian		centralino urbano (urban centre). (various references)

Pig Latin		anurbay entercay

Portuguese		central urbana (urban centre). (various references)

Spanish		central urbana (urban centre). (various references)

Swedish		telefonstation i stad (urban centre). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Urban Center

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-n-n-r-r-t-u"
	-3 letters: banneret, banterer, cabernet, carburet, creature, entrance, recanter, recreant, renature, unbeaten, uncreate.
	-4 letters: acerber, branner, canteen, caterer, centare, centaur, centner, cerebra, crenate, cuneate, currant, current, rebater, recrate, reenact, retrace, terrace, terrane, unbrace, uncrate, uneaten, urbaner.
	-5 letters: acuter, arbute, banner, bannet, banter, barren, barret, barter, bearer, beaten, beater, bennet, berate, bracer, brunet, bunter, burner, burnet.
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