Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or typical of a municipality.
- adjective Having local self-government.
- adjective Issued on the authority of a local or state government.
- adjective Of or relating to the internal affairs of a nation.
- noun A municipal bond.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the local self-government or corporate government of a city or town.
- Self-governing, as a free city.
- Pertaining to the internal affairs of a state, kingdom, or nation, and its citizens: as, municipal law (which see, below).
- noun A municipal magistrate at Toulouse in the Middle Ages. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government
- adjective Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
municipality (acity or acorporation having theright ofadministering local government ). - adjective Of or pertaining to the
internal affairs of anation . - noun finance A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the government of a municipality
- adjective relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You create a corporation which you call municipal, and then studiously shut it out from every municipal function; you will not let them light a lamp; you will not permit them to pave a street; you have provided us a separate police, one man of which they can not control.
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He is optimistic that residents will unite around their shared experience of living under what he described as a municipal government plagued by corruption and financial problems.
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Nathan used his knowledge of drink machine buttonry to figure out that the machine does indeed offer up plain municipal water.
This Taco Bell Lies About Water In Order To Sell The Bottled Kind - The Consumerist 2009
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Now if only those in municipal planning and transportation happen to be reading it - hmmmmmm
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In her 28 years in municipal banking, she says she never had encountered a government client unable to pay its debt.
Adviser Takes Heat for Helping Sell Off Public Assets Ianthe Jeanne Dugan 2010
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What programs have "broad-based eligibility" isn't clear from a reading of the Section, but long-term municipal bonds are evidently excluded.
Ellen Brown: The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street Ellen Brown 2011
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Those yields aren't enough for J.P. Morgan Private Bank, which has reduced its allocation of short-term municipal bonds in its portfolios, says Meg McClellan , the bank's head of fixed income.
Muni Bonds Seem Poised for Pain Ben Levisohn 2011
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"Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemeteries ...."
Carol Hartsell: It's Only a Matter of Time (We're Already Out of Time) Carol Hartsell 2010
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Money funds now hold 65% of short-term municipal bonds and buy more than a third of the commercial paper issued by American businesses.
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"Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemeteries ...."
Carol Hartsell: It's Only a Matter of Time (We're Already Out of Time) Carol Hartsell 2010
Prolagus commented on the word municipal
Municipal pool, you're a junior life saver
But your friends are all serious ravers
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Reading Judy Blume
But you came too soon.
(Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie, by Belle and Sebastian)
August 24, 2008