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So Dr. Service made one last indignant speech in the local, and took his five hundred dollars to start a chapter of the Red Cross But now the Germans and the war-haters in the local were asking themselves, was Socialism to languish in the city of the Empire Machine Shops, just because one rich man with an English wife had proved a renegade?

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular place: a local custom; the local slang.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a city, town, or district rather than a larger area: state and local government.
  3. adjective Not broad or general; not widespread: local outbreaks of flu.
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  • If SEIU had to tolerate a dissident like Rosselli for awhile longer his local was at least going to be much smaller. —  MRZine.org
  • It's possible that we will find the competition between greed at the global level and cooperative resilience at the local will be an evolutionarily stable strategy that will persist for decades to come. —  Global Guerrillas
  • For what it's worth, the union leadership right down to my local is voicing support for Obama (or opposition to McCain) and the local is actively seeking volunteers for GOTV. —  Corrente
  • Ankara - Voting began Sunday in Turkish local elections with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expecting to sweep most municipalities. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • Iceland and New Zealand to vote in Spanish local elections. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus, place.

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  1. from French local = Spanish Portuguese local = Italian locale, from Late Latin localis, belonging to a place, from Latin locus, a place: see locus.
  2. local, adjective
 

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