local authority

英 [ˌləʊkl ɔːˈθɒrəti]

美 [ˌloʊkl əˈθɔːrəti]

n.  (英国的)地方当局，地方政府

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牛津词典

noun

• （英国的）地方当局，地方政府
  the organization which is responsible for the government of an area in Britain

柯林斯词典

• 地方当局；地方政府
  Alocal authorityis an organization that is officially responsible for all the public services and facilities in a particular area.

in AM, use 美国英语用 local government

英英释义

noun

• an administrative unit of local government

双语例句

• As a child in the care of a local authority he had been boarded out with a farmer in Shropshire.
  他童年时由地方政府照管，曾被送到什罗普郡的一户农民家里寄宿。
• The local authority chartered him to do business.
  当地政府给他发了营业执照。
• Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers
  当地政府提供的保育服务只有少数上班族母亲才能够享受到。
• The local authority made it a rule for the students to follow.
  当地政府把它制订成为一个规定，要求全体市民遵照执行。
• A decision of the local authority pursuant to the power and duties impose upon it by the statutory code.
  地方政府根据成文法（典）所给予的权力和义务所作出的决定。
• The decision is basically taken either by the local authority, the police or the referee.
  决定可由当地政府，警方，以及主裁做出。
• The second has analyzed the present situation which the reforming time our country Local authority function transforms.
  从社会转型对地方政府职能改变的影响来剖析地方政府职能改变的合理性和必然性。
• The effect of this has been to increasingly marginalize the local authority sector
  这件事的影响是使地方当局越来越受到排斥。
• What determines the behavior of the local authority is its "nature" and the rules that standardize it.
  对地方政府行为取向起决定作用的是他的本性和规范它的制度规则。
• The government says that local authority spending is excessive.
  政府称地方当局开支过大。