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"This community is a very generous community, and we would like to be the place where people can bring those things so we can give them to the furniture mission," Peterson said.

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  1. noun A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.
  2. noun The district or locality in which such a group lives.
  3. noun A group of people having common interests: the scientific community; the international business community.
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  • Just as our community is at a point where measures protecting millions of Americans heads to Congress and a willing President, the AFA unleashes 60 minutes of lies and distortions to scare voters. —  Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian DC)
  • One of the greatest challenges we face as a community is the unwillingness of otherwise wonderful citizens to step up to the challenge of leading Roanoke Rapids.
  • "Good quality water for a community might be at the top of somebody else's list." —  Messenger News
  • Maybe instead of blaming anyone during a tradegy, we as a community should be asking, "What can we do as a city and communitiy to ensure that this type of loss does not happen again?"
  • According to Time magazine, her first leadership role in her community was as one of a few people chosen to create a police department … Sarah Palin wasn't denigrating the work of community organizers last night.
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  1. Middle English communite, citizenry, from Old French, from Latin commūnitās, fellowship, from commūnis, common; see common.

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  1. = Old French communite, communete, comunete, comonteit, etc. (later English commonty, the older form), modern F. communité = Provencal communitat = Spanish comunidad = Portuguese communidade = Italian comunità, from Latin communita (t-)s, fellowship, a sense of fellowship, Middle Latin also a society, a division of people, from communis, common: see common, adjective, and commonty.
 

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