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Municipality vs. City

Municipality and City Definitions

Municipality

A political unit, such as a city, town, or village, incorporated for local self-government.

City

A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.

Municipality

A body of officials appointed to manage the affairs of a local political unit.

City

An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.

Municipality

A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

City

A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.
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Municipality

The governing body of such a district.

City

A large incorporated town in Great Britain, usually the seat of a bishop, with its title conferred by the Crown.

Municipality

(politics) In Mexico and other Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.

City

The inhabitants of a city considered as a group.

Municipality

A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

City

An ancient Greek city-state.
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Municipality

An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government

City

(Slang) Used in combination as an intensive
The playing field was mud city after the big rain.

Municipality

People living in a town or city having local self-government

City

City The financial and commercial center of London. Used with the.

City

A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
São Paulo is the largest city in South America.

City

(UK) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
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City

(Australia) The central business district; downtown.
I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.

City

(slang) A large amount of something used after the noun.
It’s video game city in here!

City

A large town.

City

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city.
When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law.

City

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

City

Of or pertaining to a city.

City

A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts;
Ancient Troy was a great city

City

An incorporated administrative district established by state charter;
The city raised the tax rate

City

People living in a large densely populated municipality;
The city voted for Republicans in 1994

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