domestic
local
noun[ C ]
USuk /ˈləʊkəl/us
a part of an organization, especially a union (= workers' organization), representing people from a particular area:
The local in Oakland and Macomb has nearly 4,000 members.

Examples of local

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There is a very real need for this, since locals have a taste for both turtle meat and eggs.
Diverging opinions on who started the war - locals or strangers, leaders or commoners - are an intriguing aspect of later accounts of the uprising.
Recent studies have started to examine the tensions between partition-refugees and locals.
The pharmaceutical and agrochemical corporations, for their part, look for ways to avoid paths that imply negotiating with the locals.
Firms in the villages were no longer necessarily owned by locals, as was usually the case before.
There are many very specific, detailed entries and predictably these will appeal to locals.
In bad weather, convicts had to spend the night in nomad tents erected by the locals, in caravansaries, or in empty huts.
During the week, however, it still attracts a neighbourhood crowd, giving him access to a sampling of locals.
Other locals were called on to act as a witness or as a legal representative of one of the spouses.
Only rarely have these wages enabled locals to make substantial capital investments in land or productive machines.
At this point there was a great push to hire locals for positions that could not be filled immediately by international staff.
The locals, 'almost all of whom belonged to the most humble social rank', were not people with whom communication was possible.
What are the motivations of those involved in a dispute which pits the" locals" against the others?
In many borderland villages, social boundaries between locals and exchangees persisted, together with negative views about the other group.
The coins in question here were those currently in circulation in the region and used in sales transactions by locals.
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