| 词汇 | alderman |
| 释义 | alderman noun[ C ] uk /ˈɔːl.də.mən/ us /ˈɑːl.dɚ.mən/plural-menuk /ˈɔːl.də.men/ us /ˈɑːl.dɚ.men/ in the UK , in the past, a member of a local government chosen by the other members（英国旧时的）高级市政官 in the US, Australia, and Canada, an elected member of a city government（美国、澳大利亚和加拿大的）市政委员会委员 UK politics: local government & politics administrative alderwoman anti-city authority city council councilwoman county borough county council development area enterprise zone federal district municipality parish parish council parochial prefecture principal area shire unitary unitary authority alderman | American Dictionaryalderman noun[ C ] us/ˈɔl·dər·mən/plural-menus/ˈɔl·dər·mən, -ˌmen/ an elected member of some city governments Examples of aldermanalderman Whereupon the mayor, the minister, the aldermen, the schoolmaster, capital burgesses and common burgesses, in all above one hundred, did publicly and solemnly pronounce it. Cities were subdivided into quar ters, which were headed by aldermen (aksakals). The nomination of the aldermen was carried out by the deputies to the provincial estates and two members of each body (nobles, gradues, bourgeois, negotiants). The peak was reached in 1776, with 10 titled nobles out of a total of 40 aldermen, in addition to the alferez mayor. There were no manufacturers as aldermen for the simple reason that manufacturing had no economic weight in the capital. The former among the aldermen were all titled nobles (among them several royal favourites) seeking to in-uence the council's voting. The aldermen not only recognized the right of married women to make decisions about their own property, but upheld that right in actual practice. Therefore, the aldermen's clerks did know legal formulas that explicitly outlined male domination over women in the economic sphere. In adjudicating in this case, however, the aldermen upheld the rights of property ownership rather than the right of the husband to control his wife. The urban bench usually consisted of the mayor, the preceding mayor, the recorder, and one or more aldermen. A veil of secrecy covered the sensitive conversations of the mayor and aldermen, company elites and vestrymen. Legally, those aldermen who entered the council after the approval of the statute in 1603 were all hidalgos. In response to his bullying the aldermen agreed to make up any shortfall on the subsidy themselves. The new charter replaced the twenty-four-man board of aldermen with six administrators, and set aside the singlemember districts in favor of an at-large system of electing the city council. 92. Delegations of mayors, aldermen and clerks of cities and rural districts met in different places to negotiate with each other and with representatives of the comital government. See all examples of alderman 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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