Government
Government noun - Lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation).
Local and government are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Local" instead an adjective "Government".
Local
Local adjective - Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.
Government and local are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Government" instead an adjective "Local".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Much later in the series, one of the villains establishes their evilness by destroying several cities with kinetic strikes to put down a popular rebellion against the local Puppet State government.
Source: Orbital Bombardment - Middle Eastern Coalition: The Gulf Cooperation Council (consisting of the Gulf monarchies and Jordan and Morocco) created a Multinational Team of the regional militaries to assist the Hadi government and local anti-Houthi militias in the civil war.
Source: Useful Notes / The Arab Spring - You are saying that all your local state schools, all the schools that this government has drastically improved are knife-addled rapesheds and that's not a big story?
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Local and Government. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/government/local
Government & Local. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/government/local>.
Local or Government. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/government/local.
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