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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A person who lives near a given place.

   “It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

   “I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.”

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

   “The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.”

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

   “I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   A locally scoped identifier.

   “Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.”

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

7. Meaning 7 · adjective

   From or in a nearby location.

   “We prefer local produce.”

8. Meaning 8 · adjective

   (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

9. Meaning 9 · adjective

   (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

10. Meaning 10 · adjective

    Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

    “The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.”

11. Meaning 11 · adjective

    Descended from an indigenous population.

    “Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.”

12. Meaning 12 · adverb

    In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

    “It's never been more important to buy local.”

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

How this word is used

• Everyday “It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.”
• General “I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.”
• General “The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.”
• General “I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.”
• General “Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.”
• Everyday “We prefer local produce.”
• General “The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.”
• General “Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.”
• Everyday “It's never been more important to buy local.”

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