intown

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adjective

Within a town.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

adjectiveintown (not comparable)

alternative in-town

  1. not comparableWithin a town.

    Both the outlying and the intown communities might well experiment with novel forms of broad political participation and more effective local representation in larger political units.

    1997, Daniel Bell, Stephen Richards Graubard, “Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress”, in American Academy of Arts and Sciences, page 164
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    For their first project in an intown neighborhood, the capable team behind Sia's in Duluth took an old bungalow on a busy street and gave it a wonderfully open look and a great floor plan.

    2004, Atlanta, volume 43, number 12, page 114

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