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neolocal

[ nee-oh-loh-kuhl ]

adjective

, Anthropology.
  1. living or located away from both the husband's and the wife's relatives:

    a neolocal family.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of neolocal1

First recorded in 1945–50; neo- + local

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