selectman

Noun

1. Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns.
   • Near-synonyms: selectperson, selectwoman, councilperson, councilman, councilwoman
   • But what villager could have foreseen that their neighbor was to be commissioner for the government of Massachusetts, church elder, town selectman, judge of small causes, and town deputy to the Massachusetts...
   • Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire...

   Synonyms: selectperson selectwoman councilperson councilman councilwoman

   Hypernyms: officer officeholder person