local option

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   freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction

   Broaderself-government

Questions about local option

What does local option mean?

local option means "freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction".

Is local option a common word?

local option 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.