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Definition: mayor from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

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(14c) : an official elected or appointed to act as chief executive or nominal head of a city, town, or borough

may•or•al \॑mā-ə-rəl, ॑mer-əl; ॑mā-॑ȯr-əl\ adj

mayor

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Title of the head of urban (city or town) administration. In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the mayor is the principal officer of a district council that has been given district-borough status under royal charter. In the USA a mayor is the elected head of a city or town. In 1996 the Labour Party suggested proposals for directly-elected mayors in Britain, which it confirmed when it came into power in 1997. A referendum in May 1998 approved establishing an elected mayor of London: Ken Livingstone was elected in 2000. A July 1998 government White Paper proposed allowing local authorities to introduce directly-elected mayors, working together with assemblies or executive committees, as a way of reviving local democracy. However, by October 2001, only 13 councils had held referendums, with 7 approving the election of a mayor. Parish councils that adopt the style of town councils have a chair known as the town mayor . In Scotland the equivalent officer is known as a provost . In…
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From Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics
A mayor is the head of a city or municipal government . Depending on the form of municipal government, a mayor can wield extensive power or play a mostly ceremonial role. Mayors are appointed by the city council or elected by the population to serve a term (usually from two to six years). In a city…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Title of the head of urban (city or town) administration. In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the mayor is the principal officer of a district council that has been given district-borough status under royal charter. In the USA a mayor is the elected head of a city or town. In 1996 the Labour…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
have been familiar urban officials in England and America (but not Scotland) for so long that it is easy to forget their exotic origin. The word ( major =‘greater’) was used in the post-Roman West for officials with supervisory responsibilities for others, and was taken up by the elected heads of…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The chair of a borough or town council in England and Wales has the right to the designation ‘mayor’. The chair of a city council is a ‘lord mayor’. He or she holds office for 12 months. In the late 20th century the concept of directly elected mayors, based on the US model and functioning almost as…
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Full text Article ARTE MAYOR

From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
As a general Sp. metric term, arte mayor may mean any line of nine or more syllables. However, arte mayor almost always refers to a line of a certain pattern (verso de arte mayor) or to the strophe composed of such lines (copla de arte mayor) . The line developed from the late med. Lat. double…
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Full text Article MAYORAL ELECTIONS

From The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy African American History Answer Book Full text Article POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Many cities in the U.S., from small to large, have elected blacks as mayor, the first of their race to hold these posts. Carl Burton Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967 and became the first black elected mayor of a major American city. Others included Walter E. Washington, District of…
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Full text Article alcalde mayor

From Latin American History and Culture: Encyclopedia of Colonial Latin America (1550s to 1820s)
In New Spain, alcaldes mayores were provincial administrators for territorial units known as alcaldías mayores. Their counterparts in Peru were known as corregidores (see corregidor/corregimiento ). Normally, men in Spain were granted five-year terms, while those already in the colonies served…
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Full text Article plaza mayor

From Latin American History and Culture: Encyclopedia of Colonial Latin America (1550s to 1820s)
The central plaza, or plaza mayor , was the heart of Spanish municipalities as well as new indigenous villages erected as a result of consolidation of populations from old villages (see congregación ; reducción ). Whether established on the original central indigenous plaza, as occurred with Mexico…
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From Collins Spanish Dictionary
[ADJ] 1 ( comparativo ) a (= más grande ) • necesitamos una habitación mayor we need a bigger o larger room • un mayor número de visitantes a larger o greater number of visitors, more visitors • son temas de mayor importancia they are more important issues, they are issues of greater importance • …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Political leader of a municipal corporation. Mayors are either appointed or elected for a limited term. In Europe until the mid-19th century, most mayors were appointed by the central government; in France, they are still agents of the central government. In the U.S., they are either directly…
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