Definition of "townships" []

• Plural form of township. (noun)

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• "It was a battle most brutally waged in townships populated mainly by poor blacks."
• "According to vice-minister Wang, the second and third phases of the land hazards prevention and control project are almost finished, with 887 risks in townships or communities addressed and 3,141 threats being monitored by the public."
• "Sifting in my black soot around the body I'd just departed from, I saw a long, dim street with stores and wooden houses, not like the kind you find in English townships, but the kind they built out in the American west."