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intracity

intracity

1 5.4
Happening or operating inside one city
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntrəˈsɪti/
translation icon : intraurbano
  • Many intracity businesses rely on local customers for their sales.

Examples

  • Local feeder routes and intracity arterials receive 10 to 40 percent federal funding, and the balance comes from local sources.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Any satisfactory resolution was complicated by white flight and by increasing white enrollment in private schools, each of which had rendered Kansas City primarily black and had made meaningful intracity integration impossible.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The intracity buses help residents travel easily within the city.

  • The intracity train service was designed to connect neighborhoods more efficiently.

Antonyms

1 3.7

Relating to travel between different cities by bus or train

How Important

urban center
14 3.4
intracity
1 5.4

Surface Forms

intracity positive

Morphology

intracity = city (transparent) = intra + city

The prefix 'intra-' clearly indicates 'within', making the meaning 'within a city' straightforward.

Etymology

The word intracity comes from intra- meaning 'within' and city meaning 'town', so something described as intracity happens 'within the city' rather than between cities.