Definition of locality
localities
1 : the fact or condition of having a location in space or time
2 : a particular place, situation, or location
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Examples of locality in a Sentence
The plant has only been found in one locality.
a locality with high housing prices
Recent Examples of locality from the Web
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The office, led since 1998 by Ron Crane, oversees $4.5 billion in cash and other holdings, including separate pools of investments from localities and state agencies, as well as public endowment funds and unclaimed assets.
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The prefect of Dirkou locality, Bachir Manzo, said Thursday that the dead included three babies, two children and 17 women.
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As Mashable noted, hundreds of different states, cities, and localities have pledged to keep reducing emissions even if Trump doesn’t keep America’s promise.
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That $4.2 billion includes such things as land-lease payments to property owners, payments in lieu of taxes to localities, and other economic activity across multiple counties.
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Even a federal prosecution would follow only from an indictment from a grand jury sitting in one locality.
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State lawmakers would have to give localities the authority to tax themselves, and in some cases, the sales tax would have to be approved by voters in local ballot measures.
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A Hardened Structure Facility can be constructed in most localities, urban, suburban or rural.
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First Known Use of locality
circa 1538
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: a particular place or area
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: a place and its surroundings
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