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local

adjective adjacent, adjoining, civic, close, divisional, domestic, limited, localized, municipal, near, nearby, neighborhood, provincial, regional, sectional, surrounding, territorial
Associated concepts: local act, local action, local agent, local application, local assessment, local authorities, local bill, local concern, local improvement, local law, local rules

See also: chapter, domestic, native, organ, provincial, regional

LOCAL. Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a particular place; local allegiance, or allegiance due while you are in a particular place or country; local taxes, or those which are collected for particular districts.

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STOCKHOLM: EU ministers criticized NATO Saturday for an air strike in Afghanistan that lo-cal officials said killed scores of people, many of them civilians.

EU ministers chide NATO over deaths in Afghanistan air strike

The couple have been dating for 11 months and Emily hopes they will be able to celebrate their first anniversary in a few weeks' time with a celebration drink at the lo-cal Costa Coffee shop where they met.

Shaun: I used to be so shy

Natasha O'Connor, Henlow promotions manager, said: ``I'm surprised how good the response has been - we have guests from most of our lo-cal newspapers as well as Heart FM and BBC Three Counties Radio.

Greyhounds: HENLOW

Drinks throughout day: 2-4 litres of lo-cal diluting juice.

I dropped five dress sizes to swim again; MORAG WILSON-MAYBERRY IS SO EXCITED ABOUT HER NEW FIGURE THAT SHE WANTS TO GET INTO A WETSUIT AND GO SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

HHHThe Hunted Cert 15 94 minsI'm not sure which is the more underwhelming, the news that Sylvester Stallone is to resurrect the Rambo franchise or that The Hunted is essentially William Friedkin's lo-cal remake of First Blood.