| 词汇 | headman |
| 释义 | headman noun[ C ] uk /ˈhed.mæn/ us /ˈhed.mæn/plural-menuk /ˈhed.mən//ˈhed.men/ us /ˈhed.mən//ˈhed.men/ the chief (= leader) of a village or group of people首领，头人，酋长 People in charge of or controlling other people acephalous administrator anti-management authority bureaucrat controller council counter-power dean deputy mistress movers and shakers multi-headed officer officialdom tsar vice presidency vice president vicegerency vicegerent Examples of headmanheadman In reality, however, the popularity of the headmen varied considerably. According to the headman of the town, cattle live well here but horses die off soon after ai^rival. They were senior workers, who sometimes rose from the ranks, sometimes were established headmen. Kings and headmen who resisted colonial rule were removed. Some of the key culprits were chiefs, headmen and other ' traditional ' elements of rural society who were seen to be holding things back. Perhaps they wanted yet one more barrier between themselves and the administration, or they wished to dilute the power of the headmen. The area that owed allegiance to a king was sub-divided into districts headed by headmen. One empowering feature of the 1869 legislation was that villagers were legally free to nominate their own headman. The headman is the representative of the village through whom the villagers as a body deal with the proprietor. The headmen were appointed for life, as long as they remained loyal to the state. In absolute numbers, however, the population of the scheme remained small even under more successful headmen. Once they succeeded in evading this order, the scheme opened up new opportunities for popular headmen to bind their followers more successfully. In his advocacy, we see the subject-citizen's desire to end what was left of the arbitrary and unchecked discretion of headmen and patrons. Instead, beginning at least in the early twentieth century, parents, pastors, chiefs, headmen and colonial officials argued that young women were becoming increasingly licentious. Increasingly, the sardar was an 'old immigrant', rather than a headman among a fresh batch of recruits. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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