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municipal corporation

American  

noun

  1. a city, town, village, etc., that operates under a corporate charter granted by the state.


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Over the next few months, they registered their company, got all permissions from the municipal corporation and police, and set up a kiosk in Lajpat Nagar.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Borrowing a page from London's playbook, authorities have also decided to split the municipal corporation into five smaller bodies and set up an overarching Greater Bengaluru Authority.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Kolkata’s municipal corporation declared 17 micro containment zones in residential clusters where more than five infections have been reported.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2022

Also on Tuesday, Mumbai's municipal corporation said it was delaying reopening schools for younger children to Dec. 15 instead of Wednesday as a precautionary measure given the global situation involving Omicron.

From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2021

While several general histories of Philadelphia have been written, there is no history of that city as a municipal corporation.

From Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War by Brown, George William

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