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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
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Meaning of "municipal" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MUNICIPAL

From Latin mūnicipium a free town, from mūniceps citizen from mūnia responsibilities + capere to take.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MUNICIPAL

municipal  [mjuːˈnɪsɪpəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUNICIPAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Municipal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MUNICIPAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

municipal

Municipality

A municipality is usually an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government or jurisdiction. The term municipality is also used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French "municipalité" and Latin "municipalis". The English word "Municipality" derives from the Latin social contract "Municipium", meaning duty holders, referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction from a sovereign state, such as the Principality of Monaco, or a small village, such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The territory over which a municipality has jurisdiction may encompass ▪ only one populated place such as a city, town, or village ▪ several of such places (e.g.

Definition of municipal in the English dictionary

The definition of municipal in the dictionary is of or relating to a town, city, or borough or its local government.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUNICIPAL


archetypal
ˌɑːkɪˈtaɪpəl
cripple
ˈkrɪpəl
disciple
dɪˈsaɪpəl
exciple
ˈeksɪpəl
manciple
ˈmænsɪpəl
maple
ˈmeɪpəl
multiple
ˈmʌltɪpəl
nipple
ˈnɪpəl
nonmunicipal
ˌnɒnmjuːˈnɪsɪpəl
papal
ˈpeɪpəl
participle
ˈpɑːtɪsɪpəl
principal
ˈprɪnsɪpəl
principle
ˈprɪnsɪpəl
ripple
ˈrɪpəl
sipple
ˈsɪpəl
staple
ˈsteɪpəl
subprincipal
sʌbˈprɪnsɪpəl
triple
ˈtrɪpəl
tripple
ˈtrɪpəl
vice-principal
ˌvaɪsˈprɪnsɪpəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUNICIPAL

muni
Munich
Munich Agreement
Munich Pact
municipal corporation
municipal court
municipalisation
municipalise
municipalism
municipalist
municipalities
municipality
municipalization
municipalize
municipally
munificence
munificent
munificently
munificentness
munifience

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUNICIPAL

appal
Ashurbanipal
assistant principal
Assurbanipal
Bhopal
carpal
chappal
coprincipal
episcopal
hippocampal
Nepal
nopal
oedipal
opal
pal
pen pal
pipal
pupal
sepal
vorpal

Synonyms and antonyms of municipal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MUNICIPAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «municipal» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of municipal

Translation of «municipal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUNICIPAL

Find out the translation of municipal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of municipal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «municipal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

市政的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

municipal
570 millions of speakers

English

municipal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नगर निगम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البلدية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

муниципальное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

municipal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পৌর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

municipal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perbandaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

städtisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自治都市の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지방 자치의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Municipal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thành phố
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நகராட்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नगरपालिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belediyeye ait
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

municipale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

komunalnych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

муніципальне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

municipal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δημοτικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

munisipale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kommunal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kommunale
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of municipal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUNICIPAL»

The term «municipal» is very widely used and occupies the 4.787 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUNICIPAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «municipal» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «municipal» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about municipal

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10 QUOTES WITH «MUNICIPAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word municipal.
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Bill de Blasio
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.
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Karen DeCrow
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
3
Suzanne Fields
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
4
Thomas Frank
As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.
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Frank Lautenberg
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
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Eduardo Paes
In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.
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Stellan Skarsgard
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
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Al Smith
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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Tristram Stuart
In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.
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Jimmy Wales
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUNICIPAL»

Discover the use of municipal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to municipal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds
This book cuts through the noise to get to the facts that any investor needs to know.
Neil O'Hara, 2011
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The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds
Praise for the Classic Guide to the Bond Market "This is simply the most comprehensive, useful look-it-up book on municipal bonds I’ve ever read (said with all due respect to The ABC of Municipal Bonds my dad wrote in 1937 when I was ...
‎2001
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Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: A ...
This book will be a very useful tool for city managers and various stakeholders who deal with municipal solid waste management in the design and execution of appropriate and cost-effective systems.
P U Asnani, Chris Zurbrugg, 2007
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Waste Management Practices: Municipal, Hazardous, and ...
Focusing on integrating the technical and regulatory complexities of waste management, this book covers the historical and regulatory development of waste management and the management of municipal solid wastes.
John Pichtel, 2014
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Municipal Solid Waste Management: Processing - Energy ...
This volume provides a comprehensive presentation and overall picture of municipal solid waste management, including waste generation and characterization, waste reduction and recycling, waste collection and transfer and waste disposal.
P. Jayarama Reddy, 2011
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Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Residues
This text covers a broad spectrum of topics pertinent to the management of incinerator residues.
A.J. Chandler, T.T. Eighmy, O. Hjelmar, 1997
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Municipal Administration: The Handbook
Book & CD. Significantly updated to reflect all the latest legislation, this sixth edition remains a user-friendly text for all who have dealings with local government.
D. L. Craythorne, 2006
8
New Jersey's Multiple Municipal Madness
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Alan J. Karcher, 1998
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Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal from Municipal Wastewater: ...
This valuable new book offers practical guidance regarding the design and operation of systems for reducing effluent nitrogen and phosphorus.
Richard I. Sedlak, 1991
10
Municipal Stormwater Management, Second Edition
Here is what's new in the second edition: New material on complying with the NPDES program for Phase II and in running a stormwater quality program The latest information on stormwater utilities Metric versions of many of the equations, ...
Thomas N. Debo, Andrew Reese, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUNICIPAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term municipal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lincoln Municipal Band offers live music, no cover
A concert of patriotic music on July 5 kicks off the first of free weekly summer performances by the Lincoln Municipal Band. «Lincoln Journal Star, Jul 15»
2
EPA to block drillers from sending wastewater to municipal treatment …
At issue is the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to block companies from sending that drilling wastewater to municipal treatment ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»
3
Met Council initiates LRT municipal consent process
The Metropolitan Council approved re-initiating the municipal consent process for a scaled-back plan with the Southwest Light Rail Transit ... «SW News Media, Jul 15»
4
Municipal Bonds are Inexpensive and Attractive, Says Eaton …
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Municipal bond funds may be feeling slightly the effects of negative headlines coming from Puerto Rico's financial ... «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»
5
Leverett municipal broadband network topic of State Department tour
Hyun Bo Sim, media relations officer with the U.S. State Dept., chats with Pamela Goldberg, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
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Good Hope Mayor: “Honor system” for fishing at municipal pond
The municipal pond at Good Hope is seen here Wednesday. Mayor Jerry Bartlett said the city will operate the pond under the “honor system.”. «Cullman Times Online, Jul 15»
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Columbus man named to Municipal Court judgeship
The Municipal Court judgeship became available when David Young left for the Common Pleas seat to which he had been elected in ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
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Neighbors of Proposed Park Avenue Municipal Development in …
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. - Monday night, July 20, 25 of 55 owners of property within 200 feet of the proposed Park Avenue Municipal ... «TAPinto.net, Jul 15»
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Municipal candidates endorsed at Plymouth caucus
Municipal candidates endorsed at Plymouth caucus. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size ... «Bristol Press, Jul 15»
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Firefighters show off skills at TEEX Municipal Fire School live …
Firefighters work together to extinguish tanker cars on Wednesday as part of the annual firefighting demonstration sponsored by the Texas A&M ... «Bryan-College Station Eagle, Jul 15»

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