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Definitions in simple English

local Adjective

— Something is local if it comes from a specific place. It often it means a place near the person who is speaking. We do not like fruit grown in other countries. We like to eat local fruit.

local Noun

— A person is local if the person comes from a specific place. They did not trust people from other places. They only trust locals.

local

— adjective relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area local taxes local authorities — adjective of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood local customs local schools the local citizens a local point of view local outbreaks of flu a local bus line — noun public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops the local seemed to take forever to get to New York — adjective affecting only a restricted part or area of the body local anesthesia — noun (= local anesthetic) anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body

Synonyms local synonyms

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local English » English

regional native provincial of this place indigenous district topical anesthetic topical anaesthetic territorial sectional local anesthetic local anaesthetic topical localized from here endemic domestic belonging to a place vicinal vernacular train topical anesthesia topical anaesthesia there section resident place partial part parochial on this side of those places of that place next neighboring nearby near municipal locative locality localised local news local examinations local anesthesia local anaesthesia living nearby limited limitation internal indugenous

Topics local topics

What do people use local to talk about?

States Big Distance

Near

What words describe something that is near?

nearby nearest the next neighboring local surrounding

Person Healthy

Treat disease

What words refer to treating pain?

alleviate ease anesthesia anesthetic general anesthesia local anesthesia anesthetize

Examples local examples

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Simple sentences

She shops at a local grocer.

The government supplied weapons to local militia.

He was accepted to a local college.

I'll give you a local anaesthetic.

The express train is an hour faster than the local.

The way tourists dress offends the local standard of propriety.

We have to respect local customs.

There is a short program of local news on the radio.

Of course there should be local hospitals.

The ballboys and ballgirls all come from local schools.

You must convert dollars into the local currency.

It is reported in the local news.

The lady's funeral was held at the local church.

This local newspaper is published once a week.

Our children all go to the local school.

You should acquaint yourself with the local customs.

We have a local newspaper in our city.

Many local traditions have fallen into decay in recent years.

Is this a local train?

Is there a restaurant around here that serves local delicacies?

We have some local wine.

I like to go to a local jazz club where I can enjoy live music.

What's the local time in Tokyo now?

He tried to absorb as much of the local culture as possible.

Movie subtitles

It's just one long - very long - celebration of local autonomy.

Oh, I have a commercial to make for local TV.

Dubois buys meat from the local butcher who holds the highest standards.

I'm promoting a local business.

Nasty, filthy, hairy. A local.

Meanwhile, in the local police station near the abandoned house.

The representatives of the local newspapers.

The local constabulary being powerless, I've been ordered to attack their lair and destroy them this very night without mercy.

Accompanied by Marcasse, Bernard wanders among the ruins of Mauprat and views his new property. A local farmer's daughter is their guide.

I am Dr. Immanuel Rath, a professor at the local college.

At the local college.

I'm delighted to welcome a local dignitary into our midst.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce our guest of honor for the night. Professor at the local college.

As a special part of our performance it is my pleasure to introduce to you a man you all know for his long and remarkable pedagogical achievements. pedagogical achievements at the local college.

Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people until this Teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.

I am Dr Immanuel Rath, a professor at the local college.

Get this gentleman a local timetable.

Those willing to cooperate are requested to report tomorrow to their local station.

He's our Sheriff Substitute. Scotch for a local beat.

Some local irritation, ma'am. Fiddlesticks!

You don't know our local laws.

Local boy makes bad.

Newspapers, local ones, from Paris, from London.

She's a local girl.

It's so you can pay for treatment in the country where you contract the disease in local currency.

Those are local.

They'd have tasked local contractors.

The spokesperson for the UN military meeting as well as the local Governor welcomed them.

Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people, until this teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.

At the local county school.

On Saturday evening all the local youth were dancing on the village green.

He was constantly going AWOL. and even managed to become the protector of a local prostitute.

WHY DON'T YOU SEND FOR THE LOCAL POLICE?

WE HAVE NO LOCAL POLICE.

Couldn't she marry a local boy?

On the 4th page of the local paper. Mr. Personaz, restaurant owner in St Maxime. had an opening for a doorman.

Seems to have been a local fight.

Yeah, local boy makes good.

News and current affairs

We are witnessing simultaneous global convergence (the narrowing of income, wealth, and knowledge gaps between countries) and local divergence (widening income, wealth, and knowledge gaps within countries).

That boost in assets will, in turn, enable local credit markets, such as micro-finance, to begin operating.

This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity - or did before the oil companies got there - and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.

Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.

Last year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a remarkable report on Ogoniland, a major ethnic homeland in the Niger Delta that has been at the epicenter of conflict between local communities and international oil.

Local-currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long-term investments.

It would create a trade area large enough to generate both local and foreign investment.

Wouldn't life be easier if a common market, currency, foreign policy, army, and a few other things were run on a Europe-wide basis, with the rest left to more meaningful local units?

This miserable situation has been attributed to various causes, mainly lack of infrastructure and local economic conditions.

The opium fields of wealthy landowners are untouched, because local officials are paid off.

Do multinational companies, international non-governmental organizations, and multilateral lenders really understand local needs?

But nothing they do--aside from cosmetic modifications to consumer products and marketing tactics--responds to local conditions.

A decentralized system will respond better to local needs and avoid an over-bureaucratic public sector.

In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real-estate boom.

These sorts of trees can be restored, given a concerted campaign and investment in nurseries to produce local varieties.

They are armed and work with the backing of drug and emerald smugglers - and often of local officials.

He is also willing - and able - to pay more than a local doctor for services and, of course, a home in Uganda.

A local man whose brothers all serve in the police force, a sports fan, and an amateur basketball coach, Crowley does not move in the same social circles as Gates.

Ms. Park once pledged to provide loans for working-class families from elementary school to college years, while contending that local universities should be empowered to have more autonomy.

As foreign firms launch operations in the labor-intensive sectors in which Africa has a comparative advantage, they will train the local workforce.

The local hospitals lack the equipment needed to perform many important procedures, like radiation treatments for cancer patients and heart surgery.

Maintaining regional balances of power and dampening local incentives to use force to change borders provides a public good for many (but not all) countries.

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