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city manager

n. the head of a city government [syn: mayor]

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City manager
Town manager redirects here.

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government. Local officials serving in this position are sometimes referred to as the chief executive officer (CEO) or chief administrative officer (CAO) in some municipalities.

Usage examples of "city manager".

Frank Lutz, the city manager of Scranton-in-flight, reminded Chris instantly of a skunk-but by this Chris meant not at all what a city boy would have meant by a skunk.

Haskins finished, the city manager looked up suddenly and, Chris knew, if he had ever been in any doubt about it before, that this animal was also dangerous .

The city manager smiled back, but again the smile was more than a little frosty.

He knew the answer, but he found it impossible to understand why the city manager considered it worth all this noise.

But we were wondering why you let your city manager get you into this mess.

The new city manager was a youngster less than 400 years old named Mark Hazleton, who was already as little loved by the City Fathers as deFord had been and for about the same reasons, but who had been born after the city had gone aloft and hence had no difficulty in finding the appropriate words for things.

The current city manager was an excessively tall, slender, disjointed sort of man.

The city manager went out, and Amalfi, after a few moments, followed him, locking up the control tower.

He looked sharply at the city manager, and what he saw choked off the springs of his rare volubility.

Training a new city manager up to the point where his election would be endorsed by the City Fathers was a long and heartbreaking task, for so much of the training had to be absorbed the hard way.

The city manager shot through the door as if he had been kicked through it on roller skates.

The city manager was looking up again at the big screen, on which the Acolyte stars had now clearly separated into individual points.

Arm ten good men from the boarding squad, and meet the city manager and me at the Cathedral Parkway lookout.

Amalfi swung upon the city manager, feeling the blood charging upward through his thick neck.

The city manager fell silent almost automatically, and clambered up beside him.