Metro (disambiguation)
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Metro is:
- 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:
- 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):
- 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
