Municipal

//mjuˈnɪsɪpəl// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A financial instrument issued by a municipality.

    "“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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government). not-comparable

    "More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the government of a municipality wordnet
  2. 2
    relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality wordnet

Synonyms

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civicboroughburghalcitifiedcitycivic

Example

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"The municipal council all but ignored the gravity of the pollution."

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).

Related phrases

municipal boroughmunicipal corporationmunicipal engineeringmunicipal flagmunicipal incorporationmunicipal presidentmunicipal seatlocal government

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