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Local
1. From or in a nearby location. We like to buy from local merchants.
2. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. The doctor used a
local anesthesia.
3. A person who lives nearby. It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
4. a Branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. I'm from the
CWA union, local 213.
5. (transport) A bus or train that stops at all, or almost all, stations
between its origin and destination, including very small ones. We need to take
a local bus.
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