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Local   /lˈoʊkəl/   Listen
Local

adjective
1.
Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.  "Local authorities"  Antonym: national.
2.
Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.  "Local schools" , "The local citizens" , "A local point of view" , "Local outbreaks of flu" , "A local bus line"
3.
Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body.  Antonym: general.
noun
1.
Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops.  Antonym: express.
2.
Anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body.  Synonyms: local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic.



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"Local" Quotes from Famous Books



... Crawford and Sanders decided against trying to float the Jackpot with local money except by the sale of enough stock to keep going until the company's affairs could be put on a substantial basis. To apply to the Malapi bank for a loan would be to expose their financial condition to Steelman, and it was certain that he would permit no accommodation except upon ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine
... nourished, the orchard and the meadow where first love came to the meeting, the eager city where ambition, full-panoplied, sprang from the brain. The mind is hung with pictures of what once was. But there must always be a local habitation for these rekindled heats. Somewhere, in scene and setting, the boy played, the youth loved, the man struggled. That richness of feeling is interwoven with a place. No passion or gladness comes out of the buried years without some bit of the ...
— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason
... is true that Newfoundland has owed everything to its fisheries, but it is unfortunately also true that a sharp dissidence between the interests of alien fisheries and the policy of local development did much to retard the days of permanent settlement. That the more southern races of Europe took a large part in the development of the fisheries was only natural, inasmuch as the principal markets for the dried and salted codfish were in the ...
— The Story of Newfoundland • Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead
... relations had only been thus renewed after the critic had read Merlin and Other Verses, by a new writer named John Treherne. Nor did the Squire even begin to realize the much more diplomatic diplomacy by which he had been induced to invite the local bard to lunch on the very day of the ...
— The Trees of Pride • G.K. Chesterton
... islands are uninhabited. Former agricultural workers, earlier residents in the islands, were relocated primarily to Mauritius but also to the Seychelles, between 1967 and 1973. In 2000, a British High Court ruling invalidated the local immigration order that had excluded them from the archipelago, but upheld the special ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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