board of selectmen

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   a board of officials elected to administer the public business of a New England town

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Questions about board of selectmen

What does board of selectmen mean?

board of selectmen means "a board of officials elected to administer the public business of a New England town".

Is board of selectmen a common word?

board of selectmen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.