NOUN
- a board of officials elected to administer the public business of a New England town
How To Use board of selectmen In A Sentence
- One of the most prominent men in the town, Ware was a member of the school committee, the board of selectmen, and the state legislature.
- I was elected by my town to the board of selectmen.
- In 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, asked the town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election.