# municipal

Pronunciation: US say "myoo-NIS-i-puhl" /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/; UK

## Adjective

1. Of or relating to a municipality: a city, town, or other community with the power to administer its own local government.
   - Simple: Relating to a city or town and its local government.
   - _The municipal council approved funding to extend bus routes into the new neighborhoods._
   - _Residents pay a quarterly fee for municipal trash collection._
3. Concerning a nation's own internal affairs rather than its dealings with other nations.
   - Simple: Relating to what happens inside one country, not between countries.
   - _Under its municipal law, the country recognizes dual citizenship even though some treaties discourage it._
   - _The diplomats declined to comment on what they considered purely municipal questions for the host nation._

## Noun

2. A financial instrument, typically a bond, issued by a municipality to raise funds.
   - Simple: A kind of loan people give to a city or town, which then pays them back with interest.
   - _Investors often favor municipals because the interest is usually exempt from federal income tax._
   - _She added a ten-year municipal to the conservative side of her portfolio._

## Origin

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis, meaning "belonging to a citizen or a free town," which comes from mūniceps ("a citizen of a free town"), formed from mūnus ("duty") plus capiō ("to take").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/municipal (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).