municipal

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

//mjuˈnɪsɪpəl//

Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

adjective

1
Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
2
Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).

noun

1
A financial instrument issued by a municipality (e.g., municipal bonds).
“This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.

Forms

plural: municipals

Munch · A surname.mundane · Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.Munich · The capital and largest city of Bavaria, Germany.

municipal · Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

Murat · a river in the Armenian Highland, a tributary of the Euphrates murder · An act of killing a person unlawfully, especially with…Murder · A surname.

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