The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word METRO
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More clues leading to the result METRO
- Transport system satisfied staff will need day off
- Underground newspaper
- Sort of sexual underground?
- To surrender beat, The Jam finally retire underground
- Underground ring supporting police officer in the end
- Underground I’m better, not seen regularly
- New term for dispensing with borders in transport system
- Form of transport, note, linked with city of Paris mainly
- Ran across right over railway
- Transport in Paris or Rome, perhaps, around the West End
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What does METRO mean?
METRO noun- An underground railway.
- A train that runs on such an underground railway.
- An urban rapid transit light railway
- A train that runs on such a railway.
- A metropolitan area
- Metropolitan