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unitary

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++u·ni·ta·ry /ˈjuːnətəri $ -teri/ adjective formal  relating to or existing as a single unit 单一的,个体的 a single unitary authority for the whole region 整个地区的统一管理机构
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unitaryIt wants a unitary authority and it wants it to be based upon its present framework.The smallest metropolitan county had, therefore, a population approximately double that of the largest unitary authority.Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.The degree to which the entire godhead is evoked as a unitary spiritual conception depends upon the circumstances.More than 70 percent of the current countries are unitary states.Both authors' work has been combined into a unitary whole.Being defined in terms of tension or paradox, ambiguity's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness.
u·ni·ta·ry adjectiveChineseSyllable
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unitary
unitary /ˈjuːnətəri, ˈjuːnɪtəri $ -teri/ adjective formal
relating to or existing as a single unit:
    a single unitary authority for the whole region


uni·taryBrE /ˈjuːnətri/ 🔊NAmE /ˈjuːnəteri/ 🔊 adjective(specialist) (of a country or an organization 国家或机构) consisting of a number of areas or groups that are joined together and are controlled by one government or group 集中的;统一的;中央集权制的a single unitary state单一中央集权制国家(BrE) a unitary authority (= a type of local council, introduced in some areas from 1995 to replace existing local governments which consisted of county and district councils) 单一自治体,自治体监察委员会(1995 年起在某些地区实行的地方理事会,代替原有的郡、区政府)(formal) single; forming one unit 单一的;形成单一个体的