alderman

/awl-der-muhn/US // ˈɔl dər mən //UK // (ˈɔːldəmən) //

市议员,市长,市政议员,市员

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural al·der·men.
- : a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- : one of the members, chosen by the elected councilors, in a borough or county council.
- : Early English History. a chief. the chief magistrate of a county or group of counties.
- : Northern U.S. Slang. a pot belly.

Examples

Community activists were able to resist these efforts through the early 1990s, but by the 2000s, political leaders, including the community’s alderman, invited pricey new development into the neighborhood, paving the way for rapid change.
The discussions sometimes went on for more than an hour, with the mayor and other top city officials taking questions and suggestions from aldermen on matters ranging from police strategies to wellness checks for seniors.
Even aldermen have noted — and in some cases boasted — that they saw their primary responsibilities as delivering services in their wards, leaving much of the legislative process in the hands of the executive branch.
Rather, their sole purpose was to convey information regarding the City’s pandemic response to help the aldermen continue to serve effectively in the field as community-based first responders.
In rejecting the argument, the PAC offered Lightfoot and the city’s lawyers — and maybe certain aldermen as well — a reminder that the City Council is, in fact, Chicago’s legislative branch.
Antonio French, a citizen journalist and alderman of the 21st ward in St. Louis, was also detained.
A New York alderman once said Petrosino “knocked out more teeth than a dentist.”
Dirk Johnson on the real winners—including an alderman rooting for a weak mayor.
Nobody, that is, except the lawyer who brought the case, Burt Odelson—and, according to whispers at City Hall, Alderman Burke.
It is a new day in Chicago, as one strutting alderman put it.
This was that Alderman Henry Smith whose tomb and effigy are so conspicuous in the parish church.
They lolled about the fire and ate, till even slim Henry Burns said he felt like an alderman.
The town was divided into five wards, each represented by an alderman, the aldermen alone being eligible for the mayoralty.
"We'll talk of this matter, sir," says Mr. Shum, looking as high and mighty as an alderman.
He was a very Alderman in embryo, if there are such things as coloured Aldermen.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural al·der·men.
- : a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- : one of the members, chosen by the elected councilors, in a borough or county council.
- : Early English History. a chief. the chief magistrate of a county or group of counties.
- : Northern U.S. Slang. a pot belly.

Examples

Community activists were able to resist these efforts through the early 1990s, but by the 2000s, political leaders, including the community’s alderman, invited pricey new development into the neighborhood, paving the way for rapid change.

The discussions sometimes went on for more than an hour, with the mayor and other top city officials taking questions and suggestions from aldermen on matters ranging from police strategies to wellness checks for seniors.

Even aldermen have noted — and in some cases boasted — that they saw their primary responsibilities as delivering services in their wards, leaving much of the legislative process in the hands of the executive branch.

Rather, their sole purpose was to convey information regarding the City’s pandemic response to help the aldermen continue to serve effectively in the field as community-based first responders.

In rejecting the argument, the PAC offered Lightfoot and the city’s lawyers — and maybe certain aldermen as well — a reminder that the City Council is, in fact, Chicago’s legislative branch.

Antonio French, a citizen journalist and alderman of the 21st ward in St. Louis, was also detained.

A New York alderman once said Petrosino “knocked out more teeth than a dentist.”

Dirk Johnson on the real winners—including an alderman rooting for a weak mayor.

Nobody, that is, except the lawyer who brought the case, Burt Odelson—and, according to whispers at City Hall, Alderman Burke.

It is a new day in Chicago, as one strutting alderman put it.

This was that Alderman Henry Smith whose tomb and effigy are so conspicuous in the parish church.

They lolled about the fire and ate, till even slim Henry Burns said he felt like an alderman.

The town was divided into five wards, each represented by an alderman, the aldermen alone being eligible for the mayoralty.

"We'll talk of this matter, sir," says Mr. Shum, looking as high and mighty as an alderman.

He was a very Alderman in embryo, if there are such things as coloured Aldermen.