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city hall

 
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–noun (often initial capital letters)
1. the administration building of a city government.
2. a city administration or government.
3. Informal. a bureaucracy or bureaucratic rules and regulations, esp. that of a city government: You can't fight city hall.
Origin:
1665–75, Americanism
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city hall  
n.  

  1. The building housing the administrative offices of a municipal government.

  2. The municipal government, especially its officials considered as a group.

  3. Slang An entrenched and insensitive bureaucracy, especially of a city: still trying to fight city hall.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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