LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does local government mean? 

• LOCAL GOVERNMENT (noun)
  The noun LOCAL GOVERNMENT has 1 sense:

1. the government of a local area

  Familiarity information: LOCAL GOVERNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCAL GOVERNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The government of a local area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("local government" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "local government"):

municipal government (the government of a municipality)

town meeting (government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters)

 Context examples 

The program is run by U.S. federal, state, and local governments.

(Medicaid, NCI Dictionary)

A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government.

(County, NCI Thesaurus)

The DHHS works with state and local governments throughout the country to do research and provide public health services, food and drug safety programs, health insurance programs, and many other services.

(DHHS, NCI Dictionary)

Medicaid is run by state and local governments within federal guidelines.

(Medicaid, NCI Thesaurus)

The Department of Health and Human Services works with state and local governments throughout the country to do research and provide public health services, food and drug safety programs, health insurance programs, and many other services.

(Department of Health and Human Services, NCI Dictionary)