county council

1. 1.

   the elected governing body of a county

   Broaderadministration

   United Kingdom

Questions about county council

What does county council mean?

county council means "the elected governing body of a county".

Is county council a common word?

county 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.