municipality
municipality
Definition
mu·nici·pal·ity (myo̵̅o̅ nis′ə pal′ə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- a city, town, etc. having its own incorporated government for local affairs
- its governing officials
Etymology: Fr municipalité < municipal < L municipalis, municipal
municipality
Synonyms
municipality
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: The city of Sao Paolo including the municipalities has approximately 18 million inhabitants.
- have: However, Canada has far fewer suburban municipalities than the U.S. does.
- comprise: County administrations serve as a link between central and local government, which comprises 434 municipalities.
- neighbor: Some services were operated jointly with Midland Red and neighboring municipalities so its busses were seen well outside the boro.
- cover: The Renamo protests cover 11 municipalities, two of which it won.
- become: In 1961 Dundee became the first municipality to order significant deliveries of 36-foot single deckers ( AEC Reliances ).
Converse of subject
- provide: Of this £ 12,820 will go to constructing the Center, for which land will be provided by the municipality.
Adjective modifier
- autonomous: Today, the town is an autonomous municipality and has earned itself extraordinary success in the panorama of international tourism.
- Many: Many municipalities have already banned possession of any snake larger than eight or ten feet.
- rural: Horsens is another new municipality where a town is being merged with a number of smaller rural municipalities.
- separate: Separate municipalities shall be created in the five largest towns of Cyprus by the Turkish inhabitants of these towns.
- European: The Local Government Network was set up by the Council of European Municipalities and Regions in 1998.
- local: In addition, 2 per cent of the market value of the property must be paid to the local municipality.
Modifies a noun
- cannot: The municipality cannot function without the participation of its citizens " .
- level: The SAI of Germany observed that, in addition to federal shareholdings, there were also holdings at the state and municipality levels.
Noun used with modifier
- county: The Bolivia Tower Repeater has the potential to tie in all 19 Brunswick county municipalities to the main complex.
- home: The Helsinki Registry Office can provide information to those unsure about their home municipality.
Possessives
- country: The reform was preceded by a large-scale area based social experiment where 25 % of the country's municipalities were assigned to the reform.
Preposition: in
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