Word Finder - local

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A person who lives near a given place.

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It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

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A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

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I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

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A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

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The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

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One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

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I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.

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A locally scoped identifier.

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Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

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An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

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From or in a nearby location.

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We prefer local produce.

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(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

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(of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

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Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

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The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.

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Descended from an indigenous population.

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Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

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In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

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It's never been more important to buy local.

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An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.