Greater New York
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- proper noun
- /ˈɡreɪtər nu jɔrk/
:
Gran Nueva York
- Edward Lewis of the Urban League of Greater New York insisted:
- Greater New York Hospital
- Greater New York Hospital Association
- greater New York area
Examples
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This program was facilitated by a memorandum issued in July 1995 by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) confirming that intravenous bags and tubing were no longer defined as regulated medical waste (RMW) and could be managed as part of the solid waste stream.
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The American Red Cross in Greater New York offers a 12- to 15-hour course on weekday evenings and weekends for personal assistants providing home care to individuals with AIDS.
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New York, Greater New York area all around the East Coast.
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In 1994, the Greater New York
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An important case involving musicians was Associated Musicians of Greater New York, 176 NLRB 365 (1969).
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Alfred I. Phillips, a hand laundry owner in Greater New York, recalled that, at the end of the nineteenth century, there were no American hand laundries in the area, but that there had been many Chinese hand laundries.
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For, as Foner points out at the end of her discussion of immigrant geography, "even as late as the 1980s, roughly a quarter of the Italian Americans in the greater New York region lived in ethnic neighborhoods in the suburbs as well as in central-city enclaves" (pp. 68-69).
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There are over 20 million residents of Greater New York City.
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Evacuation orders are in effect in the Greater New York area.
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I lead tours throughout Greater New York for the public and for schools, day camps, and museums.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly inferable from combining 'greater' (larger/extended) with the place name 'New York' to indicate the larger metropolitan area beyond the city proper. This is a common, compositional naming pattern in English (e.g. Greater London) and is likely understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Greater New York comes from the simple idea of a city and the places around it. The word Greater shows this includes not just New York itself but nearby towns and suburbs, so it means the whole 'area' where people live and work around the city.