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DBKL

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Malaysia/di.biˈkej.el/

DBKL proper noun: kuala Lumpur City Hall, the city council that governs the city of Kuala Lumpur.

Proper noun

DBKL

  1. (Malaysia) Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the city council that governs the city of Kuala Lumpur.
    • Certainly, this was in part due to my own position as a foreign researcher seeking information, and it is safe to say I was able to gain greater access to DBKL officials than that afforded to Brickfields residents. Nonetheless, despite the relative failure of my attempts to gain empirical...2008 July 14, Richard Baxstrom, Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 107
    • ... DBKL and the first construction works commenced in 2015 (Kozlowski 2015). In 2015 DBKL endorsed the Urban Design Guidelines for Central Kuala Lumpur which includes an entire section on heritage guidelines. These heritage guidelines for[…]2017 September 1, Simon Huston, Smart Urban Regeneration: Visions, Institutions and Mechanisms for Real Estate, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin of DBKL

Borrowed from Malay DBKL, from initialism of Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.

Questions about DBKL

What does DBKL mean?
DBKL means kuala Lumpur City Hall, the city council that governs the city of Kuala Lumpur.
What part of speech is DBKL?
DBKL is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce DBKL?
DBKL is pronounced /di.biˈkej.el/ (Malaysia).

Words near DBKL in the dictionary

  1. DBFs
  2. DBGT
  3. dbh
  4. DBI
  5. DBK
  6. DBKL
  7. dbl
  8. DBM
  9. DBMS
  10. DBN
  11. DBNO

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