urban counterpart

collocation in English

meaningsofurbanandcounterpart

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɜː.bən/us
/ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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counterpart
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkaʊn.tə.pɑːt/us
/ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ.pɑːrt/
a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place ...
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(Definition ofurbanandcounterpartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is to bring the standard of living of the agricultural community up to the level of itsurbancounterpart.
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It is far less well advertised than itsurbancounterpart.
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Even today country life can be very harsh, and while rural poverty does not stare one in the face as itsurbancounterpartdoes, it undoubtedly exists.
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Compared to most of their urban counterparts, whose real incomes plummeted, farmers fared well.
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Predictably, apathy was higher among poor and less educated people but, against expectations, rural folk expressed slightly more interest in politics than their urban counterparts.
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Taken as a whole, fourteen distinct occupations were recorded amongst the rural traders, compared to twenty-one amongst their urban counterparts.
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Rural older people tend to live in larger households than their urban counterparts, with a significant minority sharing households with their adult children and grandchildren.
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The average provision made by rural houses was not as high as that of their urban counterparts.
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The last two contributions concern rural and tribal women, who are much less studied than their urban counterparts.
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Married older women in the rural area reported receiving emotional support from their husbands at least twice as frequently as their urban counterparts.
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Where they do manage to obtain employment, their wages lag considerably behind those of their urban counterparts.
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I consider that public sector tenants in rural areas should have the same opportunity to purchase their homes as their urban counterparts.
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Therefore, people in rural areas pay relatively more in council tax than their urban counterparts.
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They have more cars than their urban counterparts, not because they are richer but because they cannot get around by any other means.
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We rustics have every reason to expect such facilities as are available to our urban counterparts.
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As it was, she was left rather bereft of such assistance, albeit supported vigorously by her urban counterparts.
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Young people in rural areas suffer more than their urban counterparts from having nothing to do and nowhere to go out of school hours.
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Rural primary schoolchildren cost roughly twice as much to educate as their urban counterparts.
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Most of the rural areas return lower average incomes than their regional urban counterparts.
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Rural colleges are therefore penalised by default and must make do with less than their urban counterparts.
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