municipal cemetery

collocation in English

meaningsofmunicipalandcemetery

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municipal
adjective
uk
/mjuːˈnɪs.ɪ.pəl/us
/mjuːˈnɪs.ə.pəl/
of or belonging to a town ...
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cemetery
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsem.ə.tri/us
/ˈsem.ə.ter.i/
an area of ground in which dead bodies ...
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(Definition ofmunicipalandcemeteryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When he is ill he is doctored and nursed in a municipal hospital, and when he dies he is buried in amunicipalcemetery.
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He improved themunicipalcemeteryand divided the province into departments.
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It is the oldestmunicipalcemeteryin the state and has approximately 7,700 marked, and 2,600 unmarked, graves.
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The cemetery was decommissioned and transferred to themunicipalcemeteryin 1897.
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Controversy erupted over the proposal that the hospital would disturb the graves of those resting in the formermunicipalcemetery.
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Today it is amunicipalcemeteryfor civilian burials.
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The firstmunicipalcemeteryopened in 1876.
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Municipal cemeteries are regulated to ensure uniform provision of the grant of burial rights and consistent arrangements for the maintenance of graves and memorials.
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Today, in most cases, the prohibition of death is a satirical response to the government's failure to approve the expansion of municipal cemeteries.
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In 1883 laws abolished religious discrimination in municipal cemeteries.
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