local government

English

Noun

local government (countable and uncountable, plural local governments)

1. Any form of government whose remit covers an area less than that of the nation and, in some cases, less than that of a state.

Antonyms

• central government
• federal government (in some senses)
• national government

Translations

government whose remit covers less than that of the nation

• Bengali: স্থানীয় সরকার (bn) (sthaniẏo śorkar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地方政府 (zh) (dìfāng zhèngfǔ)

• Finnish: paikallishallinto (fi)
• German: lokale Regierung f
• Greek: τοπική αυτοδιοίκηση (el) f (topikí aftodioíkisi)
• Japanese: 地方公共団体 (ja) (ちほうこうきょうだんたい, ちほうこうきょうだんたい, chihō kōkyō dantai), 地方自治 (ja) (ちほうじち, chihō jichi)
• Malayalam: തദ്ദേശ ഭരണകൂടം (taddēśa bharaṇakūṭaṁ)
• Polish: samorząd (pl) m
• Russian: ме́стное самоуправле́ние (ru) n (méstnoje samoupravlénije), ме́стная власть f (méstnaja vlastʹ)
• Turkish: yerel yönetim (tr)