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municipal
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[ adjective ] relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality
Examples "municipal government" "municipal bonds" "a municipal park" "municipal transportation" Used in print (Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)Where schools , fire and police protection , and similar municipal services are of equal quality in city and country , real_estate taxes are usually about the same . (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)It has flared_up periodically on the front pages of newspapers in communities divided over birth prevention regulations in municipal hospitals and health and family welfare agencies . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)Pasley continued : `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928_-_29 '' . (Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)In_view_of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground_water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs , it is the policy of the Congress to provide_for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal , industrial , agricultural , and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water , and for studies and research related thereto . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament - the elected representatives - at the expense of the more conservative judiciary . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (government) of or relating to the government of a municipality
Examples "international law...only authorizes a belligerant to punish a spy under its municipal law"- J.L.kuntz Related terms |
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