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 selectman [si'lektmәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 市政管理委员

[法] 成员, 行政委员




    selectman
    [ noun ]
    an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns
    <noun.person>


    Selectman \Se*lect"man\, n.; pl. {Selectmen}.
    One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New
    England States to transact the general public business of the
    town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is
    usually from three to seven in each town.

    The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps,
    the same which was defined in an ``order made in 1635
    by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for
    the government of the town, by selectmen;'' the name
    presently extended throughout New England to municipal
    governors. --Palfrey.

    1. Dorothea Thomas-Vitrac, a New Braintree selectman, said the town did oppose some of the condominium and recreational development proposals put forth by Striar and Jacobson.
    2. "Now it's much more of a horse race," said Dorothea Thomas-Vitrac, a town selectman and a leader of Conserve Our Small Town. "They outweigh us in raw power, but we balance them in people power.
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