Definition of "local government" []

• Any form of government whose remit covers an area less than that of the nation and, in some cases, less than that of a state. (noun)

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• "Tax laws permit borrowing on corporate and tax-sheltered annuity plans (401(k), 403(b)) if your employer sets up the option, but not on federal, state, and local government plans such as the 457s and SEPs."
• "A study of the adoption by fifty-three local government agencies of a computer-based planning tool called GBF/DIME, which was promoted to them by a federal agency, found that about half of the “adoptions” represented at least some degree of re-invention Eveland et al., 1977."
• "And private philanthropists have often been effective counterweights against the excesses of local government within the U.S."