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municipality Definition

mu·nici·pal·ity (myo̵̅o̅ nis′ə palə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. a city, town, etc. having its own incorporated government for local affairs
  2. its governing officials

Etymology: Fr municipalité < municipal < L municipalis, municipal

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municipality

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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

  • country: There, one of the first municipalities in the country is drastically phasing out pesticides on its county golf courses beginning this spring.
  • world: At 77 o N, it's one of the northernmost municipalities in the world.

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