municipal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to the government of a municipality

   international law...only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law- J.L.kuntz

2. 2
   adj

   relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality

   municipal government

3. 3
   adj

   Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

   More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.

4. 4
   noun

   A financial instrument issued by a municipality.

   “This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.

5. 5
   adj

   Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).