| 词汇 | municipality |
| 释义 | municipality noun[ C ] uk /mjuːˌnɪs.ɪˈpæl.ə.ti/ us /mjuːˌnɪs.əˈpæl.ə.t̬i/ a city or town with its own local government, or the local government itself: 市，自治市;市政府，市政当局 The municipality provides services such as water and rubbish collection.市政当局提供供电、供水及垃圾清理等服务。 UK politics: local government & politics administrative alderman alderwoman anti-city authority councilmember councilwoman county borough county council development area enterprise zone parish parish council parochial prefecture shire the North-South divide town planning unitary unitary authority You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) municipality | American Dictionarymunicipality noun[ C ] us/mjʊˌnɪs·əˈpæl·ɪ·t̬i/ a city or town with its own local government, or this local government itself municipality | Business Englishmunicipality noun[ C ] GOVERNMENTuk /mjuːˌnɪsɪˈpæləti/uspluralmunicipalities a city or town that has its own government: The smoking ban that started in 13 municipalities in New Mexico, including Santa Fe and Albuquerque, has now officially gone statewide. Examples of municipalitymunicipality We are thus left with 275 time-consistent municipalities. Other examples come from the municipalities that are assuming more responsibility for prevention, health promotion, and rehabilitation. No county or municipality has organized screening programs for prostate cancer. Table 2 lists the eleven municipalities according to four measures of fiscal capacity. According to this municipal budget, in 1882 the 40 regular night guards employed by the municipality earned 12 pesos per month. Central responsibility for covering local deficits in current obligations would equalize contribution rates across municipalities and would enable the accounts to be funded. Merchant-dominated organizations (like the municipality) were likewise pushed aside, either through ruling-family appointments to their leadership or outright sequestration. As it was increasingly difficult for the municipalities to get technical assistance from government in the 1970s, they had to rely on private consultants. Our hypothesis holds that political developments within a municipality's neighbours may affect subsequent events in the municipality. These unexplained differences could in fact be interpreted in terms of the dissimilar administrative practices at the municipality level. The municipalities at our surveyed sites encompassed many villages (between 60 and 118) in the administrative sense, and hence a corresponding number of chiefs. Beyond the perceived political advantages, this listing also suggests economic advantages in that municipalities will have lower operating costs and that organizational innovation will increase. One might expect that also the political colouring of municipalities matters for their actual willingness to provide social services. Nonetheless, even then, that result was better than the 22 per cent of the vote which he obtained in the upper half of the municipalities. Opposition parties won six of these 121 elections in 1988, which leaves 115 municipalities at risk in 1992. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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