hromadas

Noun

hromada (plural hromadas or hromady)

1. A basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality.
   • Levels in oblasts and cities were below 10 percent of total expenditure (Table 3.6). Only Kyiv among cities managed to allocate more than 10 percent of expenditures to investment. The higher levels of investment activity were taking place in the hromada, where much of the State subsidies were...2017 October, International Monetary Fund, Ukraine: Technical Assistance Report—Fiscal Decentralization and Legal Framework for Fiscal Risk Management and Medium-term Budgeting (IMF Country Report...
2. A Ukrainian community.
   • Ukrainian Student Magazine. […] c/o N.Y.C.Ukrainian student hromada.1972, Бібліографічний показгчик української преси поза мезгами України, volumes 7–9, →OCLC, page 33
   1. (historical) An organization acting as part of a network of secret societies of Ukrainian intelligentsia that appeared soon after the Crimean War.
      • The 1863 hromada organized there by Vakhnianyn had dwindled so that by 1875 a Przemysl contributor to the newspaper Slovo wrote that regarding the national cause, Przemysl was frozen.1980, Ann Sirka, The Nationality Question in Austrian Education: The Case of Ukrainians in Galicia, 1867-1914, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Ltd., →ISBN, page 124