mayoralty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English mairaltee, from Middle French mairalté.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mayoralty (countable and uncountable, plural mayoralties)
- The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.
- 2009 February 16, Simon Romero, “Chávez Decisively Wins Bid to End Term Limits”, in New York Times[1]:
- The results, coming after voters had rejected a similar effort by Mr. Chávez just 15 months ago, pointed to his resilience after a decade in power, as well as to the fragmentation of his opposition, which as recently as November had won key mayoralties and governorships.
- 2021, “Mayoralty of Boris Johnson”, in Wikipedia[2], retrieved 2021-11-10:
- During his mayoralty, Johnson oversaw the preparations and hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympics and oversaw the cycle hire scheme, both initiated by his predecessor Ken Livingstone.
Translations[edit]
the office or term of a mayor
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See also[edit]
- administration (tenure of an officeholder; for example, "the Bloomberg administration" means the "mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg")
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