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Definitions for municipal
myuˈnɪs ə pəlmu·nic·i·pal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. municipaladjective

    relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality

    "municipal government"; "municipal bonds"; "a municipal park"; "municipal transportation"

  2. municipaladjective

    of or relating to the government of a municipality

    "international law...only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law"- J.L.kuntz

Wiktionary

  1. municipalnoun

    A financial instrument issued by a municipality.

  2. municipaladjective

    Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

  3. municipaladjective

    Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

  4. Etymology: From municipal, from municipalis, from municeps, from munus + capere.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Municipaladjective

    Belonging to a corporation.

    Etymology: municipal, Fr. municipalis, municipium, Lat.

    A counsellor, bred up in the knowledge of the municipal and statute laws, may honestly inform a just prince how far his prerogative extends. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. municipal

    A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term municipality may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French municipalitécode: fra promoted to code: fr and Latin municipaliscode: lat promoted to code: la . The English word municipality derives from the Latin social contract municipiumcode: lat promoted to code: la (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The territory over which a municipality has jurisdiction may encompass only one populated place such as a city, town, or village several such places (e.g., early jurisdictions in the U.S. state of New Jersey (1798–1899) as townships governing several villages, municipalities of Mexico, municipalities of Colombia) only parts of such places, sometimes boroughs of a city, such as the 34 municipalities of Santiago, Chile.

ChatGPT

  1. municipal

    Municipal refers to anything related to a city or town or its local government. It involves public services provided by municipalities such as waste management, water supply, local transportation, etc. The term is commonly used to describe various policies, bonds, services, and institutions managed at the local level.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Municipaladjective

    of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers

  2. Municipaladjective

    of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation

  3. Etymology: [L. municipalis, fr. municipium a town, particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr. municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take: cf. F. municipal. Cf. Immunity, and Capacoius.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Municipal

    mū-nis′i-pal, adj. pertaining to a corporation or city.—n. Municipalisā′tion.—v.t. Munic′ipalise.—ns. Munic′ipalism; Municipal′ity, a town or city possessed of self-government: a district governed like a city: in France, a division of the country.—adv. Munic′ipally. [Fr.,—L. municipalismunicipium, a free town—munia, official duties, capĕre, to take.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of municipal in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of municipal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of municipal in a Sentence

  1. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi:

    The high majority of municipal jails and prisons in this country make invisible, suppress or isolate inmates who are transgender, since the transgender population is marginalized on the streets of America, consider how that marginalization is magnified inside prisons and jails.

  2. Wells Fargo:

    We see airports as resistant to the challenges faced by state and local governments with respect to post-employment benefits, demand is not all that surprising as investors in municipal airports have been rewarded over the past three years with relatively attractive returns as have toll road investors.

  3. Vadim Ghirda/AP:

    The municipal ‘ life support system ’ of the capital is operating normally. Currently, 30 % of consumers are without electricity. Due to emergency shutdowns, alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Kyiv residents have water and heat.

  4. Tacoma Police spokesperson Loretta Cool:

    , but the tents, tarps and other items must go. We also have to enforce the municipal code.

  5. Sir Winston Churchill:

    [He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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