municipal

adjective

Definition of municipalnext
as in federal
of or relating to the government of a city or town municipal government a municipal election

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Recent Examples of municipal Early voting started Monday in suburban Cook County and voters will have until the end of March to cast their ballot in the municipal election coming ahead of April 1 election day. — Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025 And who makes up the largest percentage of municipal employees? — Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2025 That electricity can then be used at times when demands on the municipal grid are high. — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 16 Mar. 2025 Under the bill, municipal sentences would be capped at the same levels outlined under state law. — Jay Fisher, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for municipal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for municipal
  1. federal
  2. national
  3. civic
  4. civil
  5. domestic
  6. public
  7. internal
Adjective
  • Another member of law enforcement at the after-party is Brian Higgins, a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Google, an early proponent of diversity, equity and inclusion, is a federal contractor that is evaluating changes to its programs to follow recent court decisions and U.S. Executive Orders on this topic.
    — Paul Klein, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Definition of federal
Adjective
  • Trump's presence at the event brought a national spotlight to the sport of college wrestling and an electric energy to the building.
    — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The Headliner Awards named him the 2024 national sports columnist of the year.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of national
Adjective
  • Boaters, scouts, civic organizations, environmental groups, businesses and individual volunteers are encouraged to help clean up the St. Johns River by removing trash and debris.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Among the Italian elites, knowledge was a form of social currency, and learned women were admired as symbols of familial and civic prestige.
    — Manuela Callari, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of civic
Adjective
  • Baldoni lobbed back with a lawsuit of his own that includes Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and publicist Leslie Sloane — accusing them of defamation, civil extortion and other offenses.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a parallel civil lawsuit against them in Miami federal court.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of civil
Adjective
  • Comments Oh, to live in a world where an original rom-com like Pretty Woman (1990) is the fourth-highest domestic box office success of its year.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Norway, in the 1990s, benefited not just from the domestic and European success of Rosenborg, a fixture in the early editions of the Champions League, but from the country’s status as a natural market for English teams only just experimenting with the radical idea of employing foreign players.
    — Rory Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of domestic
Adjective
  • For more than 25 hours, the New Jersey Democrat stood at the Senate lectern speaking against President Donald Trump’s policies in what may be the most dramatic and sustained public challenge to Trump’s agenda since his return to the White House.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Apple moved to dismiss the lawsuit under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which is intended to protect free speech against frivolous lawsuits on matters of public importance, but in a surprising decision at the time, the court sided with Sexton.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of public
Adjective
  • Whether this occurred through external networking or internal conversations, matching the hiring department’s needs with a new team member can happen quicker than the job posting going live.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • While it is sometimes said that lowercase deaf is an audiometric or medicalized term, such a definition does not adequately capture the internal diversity of the roughly eleven million deaf people in the United States.
    — Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of internal

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