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| arrondissement |
an administrative district of some French municipal governments. [1/2 definitions] |
| board of health |
a department of municipal, county, or state government that supervises public health and sanitation. |
| civic |
of or concerning a city; municipal. [1/2 definitions] |
| commune2 |
the smallest political unit in certain European countries, headed by a mayor and municipal council. [1/3 definitions] |
| nonmunicipal |
combined form of municipal. |
| off-year election |
in the U.S., an election that occurs during an odd-numbered year, typically at the municipal level and not featuring any candidates for a national office. [1/2 definitions] |
| Rosa Parks |
U.S. civil rights activist and icon, whose arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey segregation laws on a municipal bus inspired a wave of civil rights activism; born Rosa Louise McCauley (b.1913--d.2005). |
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