| 词汇 | canton |
| 释义 | canton noun[ C ] uk /ˈkæn.tɒn/ us /ˈkæn.tɑːn/ a political region or local government area in some countries, especially one of the 23 political regions into which Switzerland is divided（尤指瑞士的）小行政区，州 UK politics: local government & politics administrative alderman alderwoman anti-city authority councilmember councilwoman county borough county council development area enterprise zone parish parish council parochial prefecture shire the North-South divide town planning unitary unitary authority You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Towns & regions: parts of countries He is not without weight in the councils of the canton. It was a place of three thousand inhabitants—ambitiously denominated souls in the statistical tables—and was exceedingly proud of its title of chief city of the canton. Some of the people of Switzerland were persuaded to belong to Austria, but all the people of the free cantons replied that they wished to remain free. They include the whole population of the Italian cantons, and part of the French and German. This city, and the little canton of which it is the capital, were then in a state of civil war. Examples of cantoncanton None of the canton chiefs or their retainers were recruited locally. Secondly, several institutional veto points enabled cantons and interest groups to influence federal policies. In the meantime, together with the cantons, the federal government has introduced a model decree for isolation prescriptions. Firstly, all responsibilities in the field of social security were initially in the hands of the cantons. These result from the fact that advanced medical services offered in the central regions attract patients from neighbouring cantons. However, the cantons need to approve these agreements, and thus play an important role in determining the cost of health care provision. This procedure clearly favours small and predominantly conservative cantons, while urban agglomerations, regularly strongholds of leftist parties, are underrepresented. This non-decision has settled the issue at the federal level, but it is bound to come up again in the cantons. This justifies the treatment of the cantons as sovereign units in this analysis. Since 1965, legislation has required the cantons and communes to pay supplementary benefits to those whose old-age pensions are insufficient to cover their basic needs. It is taught not only as the idiom of a neighbouring canton but also as a medium for internal communication between the different language groups. Above all, the canton and its adjacent territory to the south-east constituted an early industrial district that combined several types of work producing textiles. Since the customs barriers between the twenty-two cantons had been eliminated, moreover, new connections among remote regions of the country started to emerge. The more centralized a canton in fiscal terms, the larger will be the public sector. The fault lies with the two chefs de canton. See all examples of canton These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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