rural municipality

American  

noun

1. any lightly settled area in Canada lacking a local elected government and administered directly by a provincial government.

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Etymology

Origin of rural municipality

First recorded in 1860–65

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Example Sentences

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rural municipality

Senate, to a handful of curiosities, like the mayor’s race in Waratah-Wynyard, a rural municipality in Tasmania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Pitkanen said he was so far "fairly positive" about the project, as it will bring "large-scale business activity" and "life" to the rural municipality with a population of only around 8,800 people.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Our mountains have begun to stink," Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024

The small rural municipality of Áporo, like many other such settlements across Mexico, is linked to American towns and cities far away by the stitching of northbound migration and the return flow of money.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2020

Now it happened that the rural municipality required a thousand ounces of strychnine, put up in half-ounce bottles, for gopher poison.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

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