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Definition of township noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

township

noun

NAmE//ˈtaʊnʃɪp//

1(in the U.S. or Canada) a division of a county that is a unit of local government

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2(in South Africa in the past) a town or part of a town that black people had to live in, and where only black people lived

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