local vs purlieu

local

noun
  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. 

  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. 

  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. 

  • A person who lives near a given place. 

  • A locally scoped identifier. 

  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. 

  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. 

adj
  • Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global 

  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. 

  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. 

  • From or in a nearby location. 

  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. 

  • Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. 

  • Descended from an indigenous population. 

adv
  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. 

purlieu

noun
  • The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood. 

  • The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc. 

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