municipality
Other forms: municipalities
If you live in a town or city that has a mayor or other officials who govern it, you live in a municipality.
The word municipality comes from the Latin municipium, meaning "free city." A municipality has its own government, but sometimes municipalities join together to share services. For instance, two neighboring municipalities might decide to share a single recycling center in order to cut costs.
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an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-governmenttypes:city, metropolis, urban centera large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districtstownan urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a cityburgcolloquial American term for a townboom towna town enjoying sudden prosperityghost towna deserted settlement (especially in western United States)hometownthe town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residenceMain Streetany small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis)market towna (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated timesnational capitalthe capital city of a nationprovincial capitalthe capital city of a provincestate capitalthe capital city of a political subdivision of a countrytype of:administrative district, administrative division, territorial divisiona district defined for administrative purposes
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people living in a town or city having local self-governmenttypes:boroughan English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliamenttype of:
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
Vocabulary lists containing municipality
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