Selectman

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  selectman
       n : an elected member of a board of officials who run New
           England towns

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "selectman":
     alderman, archon, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster,
     cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, city councilman,
     city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor,
     councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor,
     elder, headman, induna, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire,
     mayor, minister, minister of state, portreeve, reeve, secretary,
     secretary of state, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden