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Definition of Semiurban
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiurban
Literary usage of Semiurban
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers and Proceedings by American Sociological Society Meeting, American Sociological Association (1910)
"... semiurban, and rural, the urban consisting of incorporated places of 4000 or
more persons, the semiurban of places of 4000 to 2500 inhabitants, ..."
2. Institutional Finance for Agricultural Development: An Analytical Survey of by Bhupat Maganlal Desai, John Williams Mellor (1993)
"In 1985, rural branches made nearly 50 percent of their loans to agriculture,
while semiurban branches made about 33 percent, urban branches 15 percent, ..."
3. Managing the Monster: Urban Waste and Governance in Africa by Adepoju G. Onibokun (1999)
"... as "most important" " Education 43 Tax collection 33 Agricultural services 9
Rural and semiurban water supply 7 All others 8 Source: Koehn (1992). ..."
4. Annual Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico by Puerto Rico Governor (1918)
"In all municipalities there is a large semiurban population which, ... Logically the
children from these semiurban zones should be enrolled in rural schools ..."
5. Developments in the Asian Rice Economy by M. Sombilla, Mahabub Hossain, B. Hardy (2002)
"Per capita consumption in urban areas was only 57% of the level in rural areas
and consumption in semiurban areas was about 14% lower than in rural areas. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"... urban municipalities there are in the United States many thousand (over 10000
of less than 8000 population in 1900) of small semiurban communities. ..."
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