city council

1. 1.

   a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc.

   Broadercouncil

Questions about city council

What does city council mean?

city council means "a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc.".

Is city council a common word?

city council 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.