Metro

Metro is:

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• a general term, synonymous with subway or underground, for an urban underground rail public transit system (see metro and list of metro systems);
• any of several specific public transport systems, including:
• Buffalo Metro Rail, Buffalo, New York
• Paris Métro
• Los Angeles County Metro Rail
• Metro Light Rail, Sydney
• Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, Houston, Texas
• Washington Metro, Washington, D.C.
• Tokyo Metro, Tokyo
• Copenhagen Metro, Copenhagen
• the common name of the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in the UK;
• short for metropolitan area (as in Metro Manila or Washington, DC Metro Area);
• short for Metropolitan Service District, a regional government surrounding the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area;
• short for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, a former regional government covering the area now merged into the megacity of Toronto;
• short for MetroStars, American soccer team;
• METRO AG, Germany's largest retailer;
• Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by METRO AG
• Metro Picture Corporation, a film studio formed in 1915 and later merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer;
• a make of car produced by Rover in Europe;
• a make of car sold by General Motors in the United States;
• one of the following free newspapers (or free newspaper publishers):
• Metro Newspapers
• Metro International
• Metro (Associated Metro Limited)
• Metro (Silicon Valley)
• The word for metre, the unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese;
• a slang term for metrosexual;
• Metro Inc. is a food retailer operating in Canada;
• a commercial supermarket chain in Egypt;
• Metro (film) is a 1997 movie starring Eddie Murphy
• Microsoft's code-name for its document framework