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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
local/ˈləʊkl/

▶adjective

1 relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood.
■ denoting a telephone call made to a nearby place and charged at a relatively low rate.

■ Computing only available for use in one part of a program.

2 (in technical use) relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these: a local infection.

▶noun a local person or thing.

■ Brit. informal a pub convenient to a person's home.

■ N. Amer. a local branch of a trade union.

■ Stock Exchange slang a floor trader who trades on their own account, rather than on behalf of other investors.

– derivatives
locally adverb,
localness noun.

– origin ME: from late L. localis, from L. locus ‘place’.

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