单词 | municipally |
释义 | municipalmu‧ni‧ci‧pal /mjuːˈnɪsəpəl $ mjʊ-/ ●○○ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINmunicipal ExamplesOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin municipalis, from municeps ‘someone who lives in a municipality’, from munus ‘duty, service, gift’ + capere ‘to take’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorrelating to or in a town► town Collocations · The town council has proposed a new road building project.· With better town planning, traffic problems could be avoided.town square (=a square in the centre of a town) · A market is held daily in the town square. ► city relating to or in a city: · The city library cost over $15 million to build.· Residents blame city officials for poor housing conditions.· the city authoritiescity streets: · Beneath the city streets is a network of sewers.city life: · City life is becoming increasingly dangerous. ► village British relating to a village: · There is a village festival every year at the beginning of May.· Has village life changed significantly in the last few years?village shop/school/hall etc: · We have a church, one pub and a village shop. ► urban relating to towns and cities, the people who live in them, or the things that happen in them: · The problem of air pollution is especially serious in urban areas.· China's growing urban population· post-war urban planning· urban growth ► civic relating to the government of a city or town: · Civic leaders cannot agree on what is best for the city.· An important civic function is taking place in the city hall this evening. · Harlow Council has always been generous with civic funding for music and the arts.· It is the civil duty of every citizen to vote. ► municipal relating to the government of a town or city or to the public services it provides: · Municipal elections will be held on April 12th.· Not far from the town centre is the municipal park.· The museum and other municipal buildings are threatened. ► downtown American in or belonging to the main business area in the centre of a town or city: · Taylor worked in a dingy little office in downtown Chicago.· Many downtown department stores are moving out into the wealthier suburbs.· a downtown hotel ► metropolitan relating to a large city: · Some workers can only afford homes outside metropolitan areas.· the metropolitan authorities WORD SETS► Governmentabsolutism, nounadministration, nounagency, nounagent, nounagent provocateur, nounalderman, nounally, nounassembly, nounautarchy, nounautocracy, nounautocrat, nounautonomous, adjectiveautonomy, nounban, nounbaron, nounbig government, nounbilateral, adjectivebody politic, nounbudget, nounbureau, nounbureaucracy, nouncabinet, nouncaliphate, nouncanton, nouncanvass, verbcapital, nouncapitalist, nounCapitol Hill, nounCBE, nouncede, verbcentral, adjectivecentral government, nouncentralism, nouncentralize, verbchancellery, nounchancery, nouncharter, nouncharter, verbchief, nounCIA, the, city hall, nouncity-state, nounclient state, nounCo., coalition, nouncold war, nouncolonial, adjectivecolonial, nouncolonialism, nouncolonize, verbcolony, nouncommissioner, nouncommune, nounconsort, nounconstitution, nounconstitutional, adjectiveconstitutionality, nounconvention, nouncoronation, nouncount, nouncounterintelligence, nouncountess, nouncounty, nouncounty council, noundecolonize, verbdemocracy, noundemocratic, adjectivedependency, noundespotism, noundétente, noundethrone, verbdevolution, noundictatorial, adjectivedictatorship, noundiplomacy, noundiplomatic immunity, noundirective, noundisinformation, noundispatch, noundispensation, noundissent, verbdistrict council, noundocumentation, nounDOD, dominion, nounDowning Street, noundynasty, nounearl, nounearldom, nounempire, nounEuro, adjectiveEurope, nounexecutive, nounexecutive privilege, nounfall, verbfall, nounfederalism, nounfeudal, adjectivefeudalism, nounfeudalistic, adjectivegazette, nounhead of state, nounhigh commission, nounimperial, adjectiveindependence, nounindependent, adjectiveinfrastructure, nouninstigate, verbinsurgent, nouninsurrection, nounintelligence, nouninternal, adjectivejunket, nounjunta, nounkingdom, nounkingship, nounkitchen cabinet, nounland office, nounland registry, nounlegation, nounlegislature, nounlicensed, adjectivelocal authority, nounlocal government, nounmaharajah, nounmaharani, nounmandate, nounmandated, adjectivemartial law, nounMBE, nounmeasure, nounmidterm, nounministry, nounminority government, nounmisrule, nounmonarchy, nounmonolith, nounmonolithic, adjectivemoratorium, nounmouthpiece, nounmove, verbmover, nounmunicipal, adjectivemunicipality, nounNASA, nounnational, adjectivenational debt, nounNational Health Service, the, nationalize, verbnational monument, nounnation state, nounNATO, nounneocolonialism, nounneutral, adjectiveneutral, nounneutralize, verbnon-aligned, adjectivenon-intervention, nounnon-proliferation, noun-ocracy, suffix-ocrat, suffixofficiate, verboligarchy, nounoperational, adjectiveoperative, nounoverthrow, verboverthrow, nounoverturn, verbpacify, verbpact, nounpalatinate, nounpardon, nounparish, nounpartition, nounpass, verbpeer, nounpeer, verbpeerage, nounpeeress, nounpermit, nounplenary, adjectiveplutocracy, nounpolice state, nounpolitburo, nounpolitical science, nounpolity, nounpork, nounpork barrel, nounportfolio, nounpossession, nounprecinct, nounprefecture, nounpremiership, nounpresidium, nounprotectorate, nounpublic, adjectivepublic service, nounquota, nounR, ratify, verbrealm, nounrecall, nounrecognition, nounrecognize, verbregency, nounregent, nounregime, nounregister, nounregulation, nounrelease, nounrepeal, verbrepresentative, nounrepressive, adjectiverepublic, nounrepublican, adjectiverescind, verbreunify, verbrevoke, verbrising, nounroyalist, nounruling, adjectivesanction, nounseat, nounsecret agent, nounsecurity service, nounself-governing, adjectiveself-rule, nounsheikh, nounshire, nounsocial democracy, nounsocialist, adjectivesocial service, nounsovereign, adjectivesovereignty, nounspin doctor, nounstaff, nounstate, nounstatehood, nounStatehouse, nounstate line, nounstate of emergency, nounstatewide, adjectivesubject, adjectivesubject, verbsultanate, nounsummit, nounsuperpower, nounsuppress, verbsupranational, adjectivesurgery, nounsuzerainty, nountechnocracy, nounterritory, nounthrone, nountopple, verbtotalitarian, adjectivetown planning, nountownship, nountransit visa, nountreaty, nountribalism, nountripartite, adjectivetrusteeship, nountsarism, nountyrant, nountzarism, noununconstitutional, adjectiveunification, noununify, verbunilateral, adjectiveunion, nounUnion Jack, nounvassal, nounVIP, nounviscount, nounviscountess, nounwelfare state, nounWhitehall, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► airport relating to or belonging to the government of a town or city: the municipal waste dump municipal elections—municipally adverb· Portsmouth is yet another defunct municipal airport. ► authority· In many towns - including, supremely, Rome itself - municipal authority drained towards the bishop.· But opponents claim the law interferes with state and municipal authority and forces governments to be unnecessarily tolerant.· In 1991, the city was divided into 16 administrative areas or regions through negotiations between urban residents and the municipal authorities.· They petitioned the municipal authorities several times to discontinue the arrangement. ► bond· One involved a $ 396 million municipal bond deal for Pennsylvania.· Stay away from long-term municipal bonds.· What they have done, however, is turn the sleepy municipal bond industry into a caldron of backbiting and finger-pointing.· Maryland municipal bonds offer excellent after-tax returns.· But municipal bonds issued by towns where incinerators are under development are likely to be threatened by the elimination of the subsidies.· Selling municipal bonds in Atlanta was unthinkably wretched.· But in parts of the Southeast, one commodity should become less scarce this year: municipal bonds.· The brokerage arm of Chemical Banking Corp. will cease to underwrite and trade municipal bonds by the end of January. ► corporation· By contrast a municipal corporation was a public governmental authority with administrative duties owed to all the inhabitants of its area. ► council· The result is a rise, to 47.5 %, in the proportion of women on municipal councils.· They have developed a reasonably efficient administration, with an elected parliament and municipal councils.· The elections were for 30 municipal councils.· The new municipal councils worked only where troops were stationed and with military defeat the system collapsed. ► court· Separately, a Socialist appeal to a municipal court in Nis was rejected last week, upholding the opposition victory there.· Police said the charges have been filed in municipal court because the injuries were minor. ► election· Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs.· As the country braces for congressional and municipal elections in March, reconciliation takes on particular importance.· The significance of their municipal election on June 30 stretches far beyond this unfortunate town.· However, their big hope is municipal elections, and these have been postponed regularly, indefinitely and mysteriously.· At the municipal elections, twenty communities voted for the proposition.· Hamas, which also opposed participation, also supported the holding of municipal elections.· During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections, in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses. ► government· These demands were simply ignored by the municipal government.· The municipal government structure described earlier continues to undergo formal and informal change.· However, the market women received enormous popular support and the municipal government was eventually forced to capitulate.· Now, Hardin, the Board of Trustees has not barred the establishment of a municipal government on Terminus.· This would have been unthinkable under previous authoritarian municipal governments.· Clearly the proliferation of little municipal governments runs counter to this philosophical wisdom and practical reality.· When the demonstrators reached the municipal government offices, there were some scuffles with a public security unit waiting for the students. ► law· Treaties are called upon to perform a wide variety of functions corresponding to distinct transactions in municipal law.· That would be to establish a code of municipal law regulative of all private rights between man and man in society.· The scope of that Article was to bind member States to treaties concluded by the organisation, not contracts under municipal law.· This aspect distinguishes the arrangement from the typical commercial agency of municipal law.· Most commonly the relationship between individuals and territorial legal persons is governed by municipal law and procedure.· The legitimate waging of armed conflict is now confined to self-defence - an exception which is generally permitted in municipal law.· Differences in municipal law prevent any overall conclusions. ► police· Their deaths brought to 10 the number of municipal police officers killed in Tijuana since August 1996, all of them shot.· Police told to stay away For many, the killing of municipal police chief Benitez deepens the mystery.· It was a municipal police officer who sighted Sanchez Ortega running, with the blood on his sleeve.· Besne Irigollen was second in command of the municipal police at the time. ► service· Their support is based on a belief that the left governments have clean hands and have improved municipal services.· But now with several hundred thousand more people, municipal services are stretched beyond belief. ► water· That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification. |
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