national adj
1: of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country; "national hero"; "national anthem"; "a national landmark"
2: limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy" [ant: international]
3: concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country; "the national government"; "national elections"; "of national concern"; "the national highway system"; "national forests" [ant: local]
4: owned or maintained for the public by the national government; "national parks"
5: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal]
6: characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation; "a national trait"
7: of or relating to nationality; "national origin" n : a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" [syn: subject]