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Local vs Municipal - What's the difference?

local | municipal |

As adjectives the difference between local and municipal

is that local is from or in a nearby location while municipal is of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

As nouns the difference between local and municipal

is that local is a person who lives nearby while municipal is a financial instrument issued by a municipality.

local

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • From or in a nearby location.
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  • (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  • (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
  • (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  • Descended from an indigenous population.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine) topical

    Antonyms

    * global

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who lives nearby.
    • It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
    • I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
  • (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
    • The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
  • (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
    • I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
  • (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
    • Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
  • (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

    • Synonyms

    * (rail transport) stopper

    Antonyms

    * (rail transport) fast, express

    Derived terms

    * localism * locally

    Related terms

    * locus * locality * localization * localize * locate * location * locative * locator

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    municipal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
  • Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

    • Synonyms

    * civic

    Derived terms

    * municipality

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
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    • , passage=“This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.}}

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