| 单词 | municipality |
| 释义 | municipality (once / 1792 pages) n 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. WORD FAMILYmunicipality: municipalities+/municipal: municipality, municipally USAGE EXAMPLESStill, even those 21 municipalities don’t fully cooperate, officials acknowledged. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The law establishes stricter timetables for state agencies and municipalities to respond to public records requests. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The District’s commitment to non-simple solutions is the most notable among all the municipalities in the area. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1n an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government Hypo|Hyper city, metropolis, urban center a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts townan urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city burgcolloquial American term for a town boom towna town enjoying sudden prosperity cow town, cowtowna small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America ghost towna deserted settlement (especially in western United States) hometownthe town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence Main 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 times national capitalthe capital city of a nation provincial capitalthe capital city of a province state capitalthe capital city of a political subdivision of a country administrative district, administrative division, territorial division a district defined for administrative purposes populated area, urban areaa geographical area constituting a city or town 2n people living in a town or city having local self-government Hypo|Hyper city, metropolis people living in a large densely populated municipality town, townsfolk, townspeoplethe people living in a municipality smaller than a city boroughan English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament assemblage, gathering a group of persons together in one place |
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