LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The government of a local area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("local government" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "local government"):

municipal government (the government of a municipality)

town meeting (government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters)

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