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- noun Plural form of
unitary .
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Examples
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In England next week, all 36 metropolitan authorities, 19 unitaries and 70 district councils will be electing a third of their members.
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It would be fairer to take districts out of the equation and just look at upper-tier councils, such as counties and unitaries.
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I thought the Government was all gung-ho for creating unitaries.
Oxford city's unitary bid fails Stephen Tall 2007
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An independent review recommended that Bristol's relatively low allowances be raised to the average for core-cities unitaries.
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Among the unitaries Tories may gain Bath and North East Somerset from no overall control.
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On Labour's watch local government split into fragments as unitaries own agenda were forced on a largely unwilling public.
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Still, the minister says the new unitaries are "on track" for £100m annual savings.
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: Combined, the new unitaries will ultimately make £100m annual savings through less duplication.
PublicTechnology.net 2009
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A total of 34 local authorities in England hold elections on that date - 27 county councils, two existing unitary councils and five new unitaries.
British Blogs 2009
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Another "saddened" academic, Chris Game, of the Institute of Local Government Studies at Birmingham University, noted that the new unitaries are "very large and remote … everywhere else has local government at a commune level".
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