What's the difference between alderman and aldermen?
Alderman
Definition:
(n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
(n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) I didn’t see him tonight,” smiled the alderman.
(2) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(3) Honorary Alderman, London Borough of Sutton Council.
(4) Alderman's predecessor, Robert Wardle, stepped down from his post at the SFO in 2008, a frustrated man, having seen BAE and its friends persuade Blair to intervene and force a halt to extensive and long running criminal inquiries into the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
(5) Alderman's recent campaign against companies alleged to practise bribery overseas is throwing up novel legal problems.
(6) There was one exception: Antonio French , an alderman of the 21st ward who has been out with protestors night after night, earning a brief stint in jail.
(7) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
(8) Alderman had encouraged companies to cut such US-style plea bargains as a way of admitting their corruption and starting afresh while avoiding a long and costly court case.
(9) Alderman staked much of his credibility on attempts to change the lumbering SFO style of investigation.
(10) Richard Alderman, head of the Serious Fraud Office, plans to press ahead with a controversial £30m plea bargain with the arms company BAE , legal sources say, despite criticism of such deals from a senior judge and anti-corruption campaigners.
(11) Richard Alderman, the SFO director, said after today'sraids: "The SFO is committed to tackling corruption.
(12) It appeared that former tax investigator Alderman's bluff had been called.
(13) Neither innocent nor guilty, you could skulk here for decades, while the alderman's daughter grows old: between step and step, grow old yourself, slip the noose of your name.
(14) The electric equivalent of an Alderman-Grant slotted resonator is analyzed in terms of two one-turn solenoids interconnected by a slotted cylinder resonator.
(15) Richard Alderman, director of the SFO, called the pioneering deal "pragmatic".
(16) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
(17) Dr. Alderman, Director of the Office of Dental Health, Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, can provide lists of communities in Georgia that are optimally fluoridated.
(18) Alderman is expected to hold talks with the judges in an effort to agree the best way to structure future plea bargains.
(19) He is an honorary alderman of the borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
(20) The size of the balloon relative to that of the uterus no doubt plays an important part in the irritability produced, and the volume of the balloon in Dr. Bruce's investigation was much larger than that used by Alderman et al.
Aldermen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Alderman
Example Sentences:
(1) Two members of the city council, aldermen Howard Brookins and Joe Moreno, drew up the original ordinance for reparations in 2013 that was passed on Wednesday.
(2) • Abolition of the offices of Lord Mayor of London, the Sheriffs and the Aldermen.
(3) Aldermen voted on Wednesday without seeing the police dashboard camera video, saying they didn’t need to view footage of the incident.
(4) On Wednesday in a packed courthouse, Judge Peggy Chiampas dropped the charges against London at a 1.30pm bond hearing as activists and black aldermen from around the city filled the room, and thousands of #FreeMalcolmLondon messages filled social media.
(5) He has also called a special session of the city council for Wednesday, to address aldermen on the issue of Chicago policing.
(6) The fund's annual report is restricted to City councillors, aldermen and officials.
(7) The electorate is small – the 9,000 residents of the City and senior figures in the businesses that operate there; the electoral structure of wards, councillors, aldermen, sheriffs and, at the top, the lord mayor labyrinthine.
(8) They waited and waited while the court went through its business, with the lord mayor, Mike Bear , wearing his three-pointed hat, and flanked by the aldermen in their red robes, telling the court of his visits abroad to promote the interests of the financial services industry.
(9) I have represented some of them: a lesbian business owner run out of town by small-minded aldermen and a schoolgirl bullied by teachers and a principal because she looked too masculine.
(10) Even with backing from 27 local aldermen who called the tactics “torturous” when the ordinance was discussed, the payout legislation has been stalled.
(11) We will use them to prevent random acts of violence, property destruction, looting or other criminal activity,” Slay said in a letter to the chairwoman of the public safety committee on the the city’s board of aldermen.