Meaning of megacity in English
(Definition of megacity from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
megacity | Business English
Examples of megacity
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The lesson for rising megacities is that a central strategic authority is not essential for prosperous growth.
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The voluntary and personal hosting of tourists should improve the bad image of the megacity.
A single-tier municipality which is predominantly urban in nature may also be informally referred to as a megacity.
The announcement touched off vociferous public objections to what the media termed the megacity plan.
A characteristic issue of megacities is the difficulty in defining their outer limits and accurately estimating the populations.
A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge.
The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history.
Another list defines megacities as urban agglomerations instead of metropolitan areas.
The strategy of pay-as-you-go cafe has been touted as a solution for megacities, to comfortable and secure encounters, with uniform (equal share) and predictable cost.
Dramatic social changes have led to rapid urbanization and the emergence of megacities.
This system was only used for the first megacity election.
This region is often considered an emerging megacity.
Focusing on the problems of existing mega-cities is only a stop-gap solution.
Today in the new megacity, there are over 200 designated neighbourhoods.
Whereas megacity refers to any city of enormous size, a global city is one of enormous power or influence.
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