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selectman n. 行政委员 行政委员 selectman n 1: an elected member of a board of officials who run New England townsSelectman \ 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] 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
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