local government

1. 1.

   the government of a local area

   Broadergovernment

   Narrowermunicipal governmenttown meeting

Questions about local government

What does local government mean?

local government means "the government of a local area".

Is local government a common word?

local government 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.