locals

Noun

local (plural locals)

1. A person who lives in or near a given place.
   • It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
   • I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
3. (UK) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
   • I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
4. A locally scoped identifier.
   • Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
5. (US, slang) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
6. An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
   • On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, page 316

   Synonyms:

   floor trader

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