Metro (disambiguation)
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Metro may be:
- Relating to transport:
- * Metro: a general term for a high-frequency urban public transport railway, synonymous with "rapid transit", "subway", or "underground"; from "metropolitan railway"
- * A specific public transport system that styles itself 'metro' (e.g., Paris Métro, Moscow Metro, Washington Metro) - see the list of rapid transit systems
- * Metro, the brand adopted by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
- * Metro, the brand name used by Translink for its Belfast city bus services
- *Metro Transit, or "Metro", the public transit authority of a number of cities in North America
- *METRO, the transit authority in and around Houston, Texas
- Relating to a particular district, and especially its government or policing:
- * Short for metropolitan area (as in "Metro Manila" or "Washington, DC Metro Area")
- * Metro, the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States
- * Short for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, the former regional government body of Toronto, Canada
- * Short for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
- The name of a retailer:
- * METRO AG, Germany's largest retailer
- * Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by METRO AG
- * Metro, a supermarket chain in Canada
- * Metro, a supermarket chain in Egypt
- * Metro, a supermarket operator in Indonesia
- A model of car:
- * Rover Metro, produced by Rover in Europe
- * Geo Metro, sold by General Motors in the United States
- A newspaper, publisher or publication:
- *Metro Newspapers, a US newspaper company
- *Metro International, a Swedish media company
- *Metro (magazine, NZ), glossy magazine published in New Zealand
- *Metro (Associated Metro Limited), a free newspaper in the UK
- *Metro (Mexican newspaper), published in Monterrey, Nuevo León
- Metro, a popular music venue in Chicago
- Short for MetroStars, a U.S. soccer team, now known as Red Bull New York
- The word for metre, the unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
- Metro Picture Corporation, a film studio formed in 1915 and later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Metro, a 1997 motion picture starring Eddie Murphy
- A slang term for metrosexual
- XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework, formerly code-named "Metro"
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