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plural municipalities
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village. examples
The governing body of such a district. quotations examples
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp
(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. examples