city manager

1. 1.

   the head of a city government

   Synonymsmayor

   Broadercivil authoritypolitician

   Narrowerex-mayoralcaldeburgomastermayoress

Questions about city manager

What does city manager mean?

city manager means "the head of a city government".

What is another word for city manager?

Close synonyms include mayor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city manager a common word?

city manager 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.