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local
has definitions from the fields of transportation,medicine,pharmacology,government
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[ adjective ] (government) relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
Examples "local taxes" "local authorities" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)After Larkin has been persuaded to restock his tangled acres with pheasants , he poaches only what he needs for the nourishment of his family and local callers . One of the local callers , a retired brigadier apparently left_over from Kipling 's tales of India , does not approve of the way Larkin gets his birds . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American_War , the steady currency of the Lincoln myth , the increased emphasis on the frontier west in our mass_media are cases_in_point . The outlook for the amateur , for_instance , is usually dependent_on his fondness for local history or for the picturesque . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as_well_as democratic processes may have to yield before it . |
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[ adjective ] (government) having subordinate authority or serving the needs of a limited district
Examples "the local office" "local branches of the library" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)One of the reasons for the high percentage of Jewish teen-agers in college is that a great many urban Jews are enabled to attend local colleges at modest cost . Typically , in a lower-middle_class Jewish family , a son will be sent to an out-of-town school , if financial resources warrant it , while the daughter will attend the local college . (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends - expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings . It could be argued that only such neighborhoods can sustain religious activity , since worship presupposes some local stabilities . (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)Your local civil_defense will gather its own information and will receive broad information from State and Federal sources . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] grown or originating in a particular place
Synonyms Examples "stands selling homegrown fruits and vegetables" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)Many local citizens feared that there would be irregularities at the polls , and Williams got himself a permit to carry a gun and promised an orderly election . (The Dallas Morning News,...)The bill would increase from $ 5000000 to $ 15000000 the maximum loan the state could make to a local water_project . Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water_program by local bonds , and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill , did not sway Cotten 's attack . (The New York Times,...)A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing_Meadow_Park is in_the_works , and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner_Ford_C._Frick . All was quiet in the office of the Yankees and the local National_Leaguers yesterday . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
Examples "local customs" "local schools" "the local citizens" "a local point of view" "local outbreaks of flu" "a local bus line" Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)The Prime_Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks , strode rapidly among the houses , joked with the local soldiery , and made a speech . (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)More detailed instructions may be obtained from your local building_supply_houses and craftsmen . (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)In the cow camps , Tom_Horn was regarded_as a hero , as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (transportation) public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
Examples "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York" Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)Sposato needed a front , some labor stiff with a clean record to act_as business_agent of the Redhook local . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)He would not ride the eight-thirty local to the city each morning . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having a definite spatial form and location
Examples "a local heaven and hell" "give to airy nothings a local habitation and a name"- Shakespeare Related terms |
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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body
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