municipal

Pluralmunicipals

1. 1
   adjective

   Relating to a city or town and its local government.

   The municipal pool opens in June every summer.

   Workers from the municipal water department fixed the broken pipe on our street.

   Similarcivic, local

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A kind of loan people give to a city or town, which then pays them back with interest.

   Like lending money to a friend who promises to pay you back a little extra later: except the friend is your city.

   He bought a municipal from the city, and it will pay him back with interest in ten years.

   Her family put some of their savings into municipals to help pay for the new school building.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Relating to what happens inside one country, not between countries.

   Like the rules inside one family's home: they apply to that family, not to the neighbors.

   Each country's municipal laws decide who can vote in its elections.

   The problem was about the country's municipal affairs, so other nations stayed out of it.

   Similardomestic, internal

   Oppositeinternational

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