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in the UK , in the past, amemberof alocalgovernmentchosenby the othermembers （英国旧时的）高级市政官in the US,Australia, and Canada, anelectedmemberof acitygovernment （美国、澳大利亚和加拿大的）市政委员会委员SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUK politics: local government & politics - alderwoman
- anti-city
- authority
- borough
- canton
- city council
- city councillor
- county borough
- county council
- development area
- federal district
- intercounty
- municipality
- parish council
- parochial
- prefecture
- principal area
- self-governing
- shire
- town meeting
See more results » alderman| American Dictionaryanelectedmemberof somecitygovernments Examplesofaldermanalderman Whereupon the mayor, the minister, the aldermen, the schoolmaster, capital burgesses and common burgesses, in all above one hundred, did publicly and solemnly pronounce it.From theCambridge English Corpus Cities were subdivided into quar ters, which were headed by aldermen (aksakals).From theCambridge English Corpus The nomination of the aldermen was carried out by the deputies to the provincial estates and two members of each body (nobles, gradues, bourgeois, negotiants).From theCambridge English Corpus The peak was reached in 1776, with 10 titled nobles out of a total of 40 aldermen, in addition to the alferez mayor.From theCambridge English Corpus There were no manufacturers as aldermen for the simple reason that manufacturing had no economic weight in the capital.From theCambridge English Corpus The former among the aldermen were all titled nobles (among them several royal favourites) seeking to in-uence the council's voting.From theCambridge English Corpus The aldermen not only recognized the right of married women to make decisions about their own property, but upheld that right in actual practice.From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, the aldermen's clerks did know legal formulas that explicitly outlined male domination over women in the economic sphere.From theCambridge English Corpus In adjudicating in this case, however, the aldermen upheld the rights of property ownership rather than the right of the husband to control his wife.From theCambridge English Corpus The urban bench usually consisted of the mayor, the preceding mayor, the recorder, and one or more aldermen.From theCambridge English Corpus A veil of secrecy covered the sensitive conversations of the mayor and aldermen, company elites and vestrymen.From theCambridge English Corpus Legally, those aldermen who entered the council after the approval of the statute in 1603 were all hidalgos.From theCambridge English Corpus In response to his bullying the aldermen agreed to make up any shortfall on the subsidy themselves.From theCambridge English Corpus The new charter replaced the twenty-four-man board of aldermen with six administrators, and set aside the singlemember districts in favor of an at-large system of electing the city council. 92.From theCambridge English Corpus Delegations of mayors, aldermen and clerks of cities and rural districts met in different places to negotiate with each other and with representatives of the comital government.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |