Crossword clues for selectmen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of selectman English)
Usage examples of "selectmen".
Worse still, he's convinced the Board of Selectmen that the new garage is a bad idea.
He could not understand how the Board of Selectmen could be so shortsighted.
I had hoped that you would go along, once you knew how I and the selectmen felt.
Say that I wanted to close the beaches and warn people, but the selectmen disagreed.
The only selectmen present were longtime friends and allies of Vaughan's: Tony Catsoulis, a builder who looked like a fire hydrant.
The four selectmen sat around a coffee table at one end of the immense room.
He was talking to Ned Banks, who had become one of the town's Selectmen the previous year.
For the time being the entire Council of Selectmen is the finance committee-if we go ahead with this.
There had been one candidate for the job of national banker or state treasurer (no agreement as yet on title) from outside the selectmen, a farmer named Learner, but his self-nomination got nowhere despite his claim of generations of experience in banking plus a graduate degree in such matters.
That's been one of the major complaints, Ernie, why the selectmen just had to act-all that money going into the bank and none coming out.
For the time being the entire Council of Selectmen is the finance committee—if we go ahead with this.
There had been one candidate for the job of national banker or state treasurer (no agreement as yet on title) from outside the selectmen, a farmer named Learner, but his self-nomination got nowhere despite his claim of generations of experience in banking plus a graduate degree in such matters.
That’s been one of the major complaints, Ernie, why the selectmen just had to act—all that money going into the bank and none coming out.