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Metro [< Metropolitan] 
1 n. Metropolitan Toronto, an administrative federation of the city proper and suburban municipalities to provide certain common services, such as police protection.
- 1957 The payoff came one day this summer when Metro chairman Fred Gardiner said a Bloor Street subway would be a mistake; Metro would study others, among them Mary Young's.
- 1963 Billed as "Tory night in Metro," the event was described by a party spokesman as a "means to get the ball rolling". . . .
- 1966 Mr. Wilson said that separate schools are able to serve from 40 to 90 per cent of the Roman Catholic population in any given area of Metro.
2 n. any similar form of city government elsewhere.
- 1962 Canada's second experiment with metropolitan government scarcely seemed controversial when Winnipeg put the scheme into effect a year ago. The Metro did not follow Toronto Metro's example of taking over the police or fire departments or the school systems.
- 1966 [He] faced an indirect challenge during the election campaign from a so-called ginger group of eight Liberal in metro Winnipeg ridings.
- 1957 The payoff came one day this summer when Metro chairman Fred Gardiner said a Bloor Street subway would be a mistake; Metro would study others, among them Mary Young's.