local authority

1. 1.

   an administrative unit of local government

   Broaderagency

   United Kingdom

Questions about local authority

What does local authority mean?

local authority means "an administrative unit of local government".

Is local authority a common word?

local authority is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.