adj.
- relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood.
▸denoting a telephone call made to a nearby place and charged at a relatively low rate.
▸Computing only available for use in one part of a program.
- (in technical use) relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these:
a local infection.
n.
a local person or thing.
▸Brit. informal a pub convenient to a person's home.
▸N. Amer. a local branch of a trade union.
▸Stock Exchange slang a floor trader who trades on their own account, rather than on behalf of other investors.
Derivative
- locally adv.
- localness n.
Etymology
ME: from late L. localis, from L. locus ‘place’.