English Dictionary

municipality

IPA（発音記号）

/mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/

名詞

A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village. / The governing body of such a district.

日本語の意味

自治体（特に他の行政区域を内包しない独立した行政区域。市、町、村など） / 自治体の統治体（その区域を統治する行政機関）

The municipality allocated funds to renovate the aging public library.

その自治体は老朽化した公立図書館を改修するための資金を割り当てました。

意味（1）

A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

意味（2）

The governing body of such a district.

From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

意味（3）

(politics) In Mexico and other Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.

municipalities （ plural ）