Local here means that it all happens at the same spacetime point.
This might be an effective field theory or it might be fundamental.
Some examples are the following: A nonrelativistic example is the BCS theory at large length scales with the phonons integrated out so that the force between two dressed electrons is approximated by a contact term.
In four space-time dimensions, such theories are not renormalisable.
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