Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or typical of a municipality.
- adj. Having local self-government.
- adj. Issued on the authority of a local or state government.
- adj. Of or relating to the internal affairs of a nation.
- n. A municipal bond: invested in tax-free municipals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the local self-government or corporate government of a city or town.
- Self-governing, as a free city.
- Pertaining to the internal affairs of a state, kingdom, or nation, and its citizens: as, municipal law (which see, below).
- n. A municipal magistrate at Toulouse in the Middle Ages. See the extract.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
- adj. Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.
- n. finance A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government
- adj. Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to the government of a municipality
- adj. relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality
Etymologies
- From French municipal, from Latin municipalis ("of or belonging to a citizen or a free town"), from municeps ("a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town"), from munus ("duty") + capere ("to take"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin mūnicipālis, from mūnicipium, town, from mūniceps, citizen : mūnus, public office, duty; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You create a corporation which you call municipal, and then studiously shut it out from every municipal function; you will not let them light a lamp; you will not permit them to pave a street; you have provided us a separate police, one man of which they can not control.”
“Money funds now hold 65% of short-term municipal bonds and buy more than a third of the commercial paper issued by American businesses.”
“Those yields aren't enough for J.P. Morgan Private Bank, which has reduced its allocation of short-term municipal bonds in its portfolios, says Meg McClellan , the bank's head of fixed income.”
“Now if only those in municipal planning and transportation happen to be reading it - hmmmmmm”
“Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemeteries ....”
The Huffington Post: Carol Hartsell: It's Only a Matter of Time (We're Already Out of Time)
“What programs have "broad-based eligibility" isn't clear from a reading of the Section, but long-term municipal bonds are evidently excluded.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Brown: The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street
“Nathan used his knowledge of drink machine buttonry to figure out that the machine does indeed offer up plain municipal water.”
This Taco Bell Lies About Water In Order To Sell The Bottled Kind - The Consumerist
“In her 28 years in municipal banking, she says she never had encountered a government client unable to pay its debt.”
The Wall Street Journal: Adviser Takes Heat for Helping Sell Off Public Assets
“Mr. WESSEL: Well, for now, most of them - all of them have been paid back with a very few exceptions, and the experts in municipal finance, the rating agencies and the bankruptcy lawyers, say that it's unlikely that there'll be a wave of defaults - that cities and towns and states almost always find a way to pay off the debt holders.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘municipal’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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Favorites
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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high frequent
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my dictionary
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sputnik
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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[GRE] 10 Apr 2013
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Words Words and more Words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for municipal.
Prolagus Municipal pool, you're a junior life saver
But your friends are all serious ravers
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Reading Judy Blume
But you came too soon.
(Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 24, 2008