Definitions for Municipal
myuˈnɪs ə pəlMu·nic·i·pal

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. municipal(adj)

   relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality

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

2. municipal(adj)

   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(2.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. municipal(Noun)

   A financial instrument issued by a municipality.

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

2. municipal(Adjective)

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

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

3. municipal(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

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

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Municipal(adj)

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

   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.]

2. Municipal(adj)

   of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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. municipalis—municipium, 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. Tom Roseen:

   While investors were keeping a keen eye on the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting, which concluded on Wednesday on a more hawkish note than some anticipated, taxable-fixed income mutual funds took in small amounts of net new money - $348 million-plus, with ETF investors ... withdrawing $700 million, interestingly, though, both investors types were net purchasers of municipal bond funds, injecting $877 million into conventional open-end funds and $314 million for ETFs, respectively.

2. Brett Callow:

   This is the first incident that I'm aware of which has directly impacted election-related infrastructure, at least 18 county or municipal bodies have been impacted by ransomware since the beginning of September — about three per week — so it's very likely that other bodies will be hit in the run-up to the election.

3. Sir Winston Churchill:

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

4. George Ghali of Lebanese rights:

   There have been lots of arrests and lots of beatings, unfortunately many of them have been tolerated by local leadership or even by municipal police... and justified within the current security situation, what is concerning for us is not just retaliatory arrests but general xenophobia.

5. Ajit Pai:

   Municipal broadband networks have a track record of overpromising and under-delivering, wasting taxpayer money while also harming any current or potential private competitors.

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