municipality definition

  • noun:
    • A political unit, particularly a city, town, or village, incorporated for neighborhood self-government.
    • A body of officials appointed to handle the matters of a local governmental unit.
    • A district with a government that usually encloses hardly any other governed areas; a borough, town, or included town or town.
    • A municipal area; a borough, town, or included town or town.
    • A town or city possessed of business privileges of regional self-government; a residential area under municipal jurisdiction.
    • men and women living in a town or town having local self-government
    • an urban area having business status and abilities of self-government

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