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.

The decision produced a local uproar.

The local police think it's tied into the kidnapping he 'solved'.

My grandfather had a local Carnegie Library.

Sure. He was like those guys in the musicals—loveable rogues who roll into town and catch the eye of the local star-struck gal and sweep them off their feet.

He's a rescue from a local rancher.

The local vehicles that passed him invariable gave him a wave and a wide berth.

The local folks call this spot the writing on the rock.

I should be thankful to do nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get out of it.

They'd gone shopping at the local Goodwill for their polyester outfits.

Since leaving college, she'd stayed in shape through the local gym, where she lifted weights and forced herself onto a cardio machine twice a week.

Maybe she gave lessons to local kids or was a tutor.

It had been in all the local papers, but she wasn't sure she could talk about it without getting emotional.

We all were excellent customers of Plotkins, the local furniture store.

He'd hit some local bars later until he found just what he wanted.

Romas hadn't even accompanied her to the row house but sent her on a small shuttle to the local park and left her there.

The newlyweds spent the night at a local luxury hotel-- also an arrangement made by Kiera-- and she was left alone in the row house full of boxes.

With luck, he'll tell us if it's our man or some local hoods trashing Julie's place.

Recommended local hospices attached to report.

The town of Ouray was so oblivious to these frequent winter gifts from Mother Nature that snow caused not a hitch in the local activities.

I'm sure shooting ghosts in town must be against some local ordinance.

Every week, I buy my milk from a small local dairy on the day it comes forth from the cow.

He was willing to personally alert the local police and have them check out the vehicle even without clear cut identification.

A delicate balance of local easements, public involvement and volunteer labor was slowly assembled.

The box, advertised as containing Ouray, Colorado correspondence from the last century and "other items of local interest," was offered via the Internet at three hundred dollars.

He called the local sheriff in Ouray and said he plans to come out and haul his 'mentally stressed wife' back East with him.

Dean just smiled and picked up the local newspaper.

When I go to far-flung places, I often know little of local customs and, through ignorance, I have committed more than one faux pas.

Sunday began with a lost boy who we located in a local forest but was found by the time we called in the tip.

The thought was that the overseer, being local, would be able to separate the lazy from the truly needy.

What about extradition, if a citizen of one country visits another and breaks the local law?

Someone check the local papers for sales offerings the last week.

Actually, I'm a lawyer, working with local counsel on a pending case.

The problem is her abductor is the revered local police chief!

I can see where the local law enforcement people wouldn't be thrilled with these folks looking over their shoulder and pushing them.

It was some local peeping Tom by the sound of it.

Knowing the local police included Detective Jackson, I suggested he contact the Simi Valley attorney first to find out if the vehicle I saw was in fact his.

The Fourth of July, with its old-fashioned local celebrations and guaranteed full house was but a week away.

Keep your fingers crossed it was a local and not one of the tourists passing through.

Fred explained that the New York sister was staying in her motor home at a local campground.

Dean returned to Bird Song mid-morning, showered, and walked the three blocks to Diversions, a combination used book store, coffee shop, and local gathering place, on Sixth Street, a half block from Main.

We decided to leave the house and reconnoiter at a local restaurant, one that served wine.

Together we let a dog choose us at the local humane society.

New local acquaintances never questioned us about work and we displayed no interest in anything pertaining to crime or mayhem.

Where in hell was a local mall?

Fred was referring to a coffee klatch of elderly town patriarchs whose words and advice on just about anything was often quoted in the local paper.

He took in the various scenes, to include the local news, which blasted photos of the black skies and mounting waves of the tropical-storm-turned-hurricane.

A local realtor manages it and rents out the spaces for them.

By the time Dean strolled by a few moments later, red-faced Fitzgerald was getting an ear full from a half dozen tourists and an elderly local, known for his unwavering opinions and surly disposition.

The headlines of the local newspaper proudly announced, "Under Sheriff Solves Fifty-Year-Old Murder," which Lydia neither confirmed nor denied, nor did the Deans offer public comment.

We think it was some local.