rural municipality
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rural municipality
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Mingma Sherpa, chairperson of the Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, said the change was something the Sherpa community had lobbied for for many years now.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
"Our mountains have begun to stink," Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, told the BBC.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2024
In my second week there, I traveled to Orito, another rural municipality just 100 miles or so from where the Noscues live, to observe these efforts up close.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
Jefferson barricaded himself in his home in the rural municipality of Comendador Levy Gasparian for eight hours, authorities said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022
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 Stead, Robert J. C.
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