Definition of Local

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Definition of Local

Local

Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.

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Local Quotations

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
Rita Rudner

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Dennis Miller

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
Neil Gaiman

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
Tim Vine

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
Tim Vine

Local Translations

local in Afrikaans is plaaslik
local in Dutch is plaatselijk, lokaal
local in Italian is nostrano, locale
local in Norwegian is lokal, stedlig, kommunal
local in Spanish is local
local in Swedish is lokal, lokala

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