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UK
/ˈɔːldəmən/
]
[ US /ˈæɫdɝmən, ˈɔɫdɝmən/ ]
[ US /ˈæɫdɝmən, ˈɔɫdɝmən/ ]
NOUN
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a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council)
aldermen usually represent city wards
How To Use alderman In A Sentence
- Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
- ‘It is the farmer who earns his living from the land and as such it should be recognised as a tradeable asset,’ insisted Mr Alderman.
- Alderman Lewis, a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands.
- Another Newton alderman, Charlie Shapiro, said the ordinance was a way for the city, which has an $8 million deficit, to "offload" some responsibility for keeping sidewalks clear. New Shovel-Ready Project
- If we had in our power the pen which traced the delicate marvels of Queen Mab, not bigger than an agate that glitters on the finger of an alderman, of her liny chariot, of her diaphanous team, only then should we succeed in giving an idea of a purely ideal talent into which matter enters hardly at all. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
- I bitched about the Park to my Alderman, he told me it was money from another source, and not effected by the city's budget issues ... Aurora Seeks Access to Lake Michigan Water Supply
- He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall. Bedlam
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- The launch was chaired by Brisbane City Council Labor alderman David Hinchliffe.
- Leroy had quit his ward organization to run against the regular candidate for alderman.