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town council
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But last week, the town council unanimously rejected her request to officially add the tilde.
▪ For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858-9 was chief magistrate.
▪ Her room was always full of flowers and cards from her patients and from the town council.
▪ Similarly, the town council of Leicester ordered that at least one member of every household should attend sermons twice a week.
▪ Sliding it by the town council, however, was another matter.
▪ The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.
▪ The next step in the process is set for the August 20 town council meeting.
▪ The ruling has been attacked by local shopkeepers and by a member of the town council.
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Town council

A town council, village council, or rural council is a form of local government for small municipalities.

Usage of the term varies under different jurisdictions.

Usage examples of "town council".

I might lose my job if the town council found out I was making you do the tough stuff.

My latest gift from the town council sat on the desk, blinking angrily at me.

I want to talk the town council into trying Raena out of doors, so you can testify.

They'd better not find out that the town council has had the information for nearly twenty-four hours and has been sitting on it.

He now served on the town council and had been her main advocate in getting the town to rebuild her tavern.

Go to the town council and complain that someone kidnapped the child he had illegally enslaved?

More likely he will go to the town council and lend his support to those who would make slavery a law as well as a fact here.

An immediate report on the spies should go to Emmaburg, for the Town Council, and to Marthatown, for the Joint Council.

Caught up in a bit of dangerous play during Festival, you say, and given let-pass by the Town Council?

The man sent by the village to represent them to the intendant and selected by the guild to sit in the town council, was its most capable, and most creditable man, one of those, probably, who, through his application, intelligence, honesty and economy, had proved the most prosperous, some master-workman or farmer that had gained experience through long years of assiduity, familiar with details and precedents, of good judgment and repute, more interested than anybody else in supporting the interests of the community and with more leisure than others to attend to public affairs.