The local farmers' market offers fresh produce grown within a twenty-mile radius of the town center.
当地农贸市场提供在镇中心二十英里范围内种植的新鲜农产品。
Oceanographer Liam Chen's recent survey of the same plankton populations found shell density had stabilized in areas where local upwelling brought in cooler, less acidic water, suggesting that regional currents may buffer some populations against the broader trend Petrov describes.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
An archaeologist proposes that a newly excavated settlement engaged in long-distance trade rather than relying solely on local resources.
From a Command of Evidence: Textual question · Information and Ideas
When a popular ride-sharing app temporarily suspended service in a mid-sized city due to a technical outage, local taxi companies reported a spike in calls during the outage, but call volumes returned to pre-outage levels within a day of the app's service being restored.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “local”?
C — Nearby; n. person from area. “local” means nearby; n. person from area.
Which word means “nearby; n. person from area”?
C — local. “local” means nearby; n. person from area.
local — nearby; n. person from area. In Chinese: 当地的，本地人.
local is pronounced /ˈloʊkl/.
The local farmers' market offers fresh produce grown within a twenty-mile radius of the town center. (当地农贸市场提供在镇中心二十英里范围内种植的新鲜农产品。)
regional, nearby, resident — all close in meaning to local (nearby; n. person from area).
distant, foreign — each the opposite of local (nearby; n. person from area).
Yes. local is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
loc(Position)+al.