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Rural vs Municipal - What's the difference?

rural | municipal |

As adjectives the difference between rural and municipal

is that rural is pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas while municipal is of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

As a noun municipal is

a financial instrument issued by a municipality.

rural

English

(wikipedia rural)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}

    Synonyms

    * campestral * landly

    Antonyms

    * urban * suburban

    Related terms

    * ruralistic

    See also

    * country ----

    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.}}

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