selectman has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns

Used in print

(Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)

The 1946 town_meeting voted to have the Selectmen appoint a committee to investigate and report on the feasibility of some system of sewage_disposal and a disposal_plant to serve Manchester_Center , Depot , and Way_'s_Lane .

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