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Municipal vs Community - What's the difference?

municipal | community | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between municipal and community

is that municipal is a financial instrument issued by a municipality while community is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.

As an adjective municipal

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

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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 21, author=Julie Connelly, title=Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields, work=New York Times citation
  • , 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.}}

    community

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia community) (communities)
  • A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
  • * Hallam
  • Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
  • * Wordsworth
  • Creatures that in communities exist.
    A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
  • A commune, or residential or religious collective.
  • The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}
  • (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  • (internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
  • (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
  • * (John Locke)
  • The original community of all things.
  • * (Washington Irving)
  • An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
  • (obsolete) common character; likeness.
  • * H. Spencer
  • The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
  • (obsolete) commonness; frequency
  • * Shakespeare
  • Eyes sick and blunted with community .

    Derived terms

    * community service * community spirit

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