municipality (noun)
1municipality — ► NOUN (pl. municipalities) ▪ a town or district that has local government …
2municipality — noun (plural ties) Date: 1790 1. a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self government 2. the governing body of a municipality …
3municipality — UK US /mjuːˌnɪsɪˈpæləti/ noun [C] (plural municipalities) GOVERNMENT ► a city or town that has its own government: »The smoking ban that started in 13 municipalities in New Mexico, including Santa Fe and Albuquerque, has now officially gone… …
4municipality — noun (plural municipalities) a town or district that has local government. ↘the governing body of a municipality …
5municipality — noun /ˈmjʊu.nɪs.ɪ.pæl.It.ɪi/ A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village. See Also: municipal …
6municipality — noun (C) 1 a town, city, or other small area, which has its own government that makes decisions about local affairs 2 the government of a town, city etc, which makes decisions about local affairs …
7municipality — UK [mjuːˌnɪsɪˈpælətɪ] / US [mjuˌnɪsɪˈpælətɪ] noun [countable] Word forms municipality : singular municipality plural municipalities a) a town or other area that has its own local government b) the local government of a place …
8municipality — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. district, village, borough; see city , town 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. city, town, village, metropolis, district, borough, suburb, bedroom community, precinct, parish, hamlet. see city III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …
9municipality — mu|nic|i|pal|i|ty [ mju,nısı pæləti ] noun count a town or other area that has its own local government a. the local government of a place …
10municipality — /mjunəsəˈpæləti / (say myoohnuhsuh paluhtee) noun (plural municipalities) 1. an area of land delineated for the purposes of local government and which, when first defined in NSW in 1858, was to be no larger than ten square miles with a minimum… …