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n. A local linguistic feature.

n. A local custom or peculiarity.

n. Devotion to local interests and customs.

n. a linguistic feature that is unique to a locality

n. Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena

n. The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

n. A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

n. The state or condition of being local or localized; limitation to a place or to a locality; also, the influence exerted by a locality.

n. Attachment to a locality, or a peculiar limited phase of thought or feeling growing out of such attachment; provincialism; in general, any product of local influences: as, the localism of one's views or affections.

n. A mode of speaking or acting peculiar to a place; a local idiom, phrase, or custom.

n. a partiality for some particular place

n. a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality

"The government's approach in practice, however, has thus far been marked by inconsistency and incoherence, not helped by a definition of localism that is extremely elastic," the report, from the Commons communities and local government select committee, says.""

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