What's the difference between alderman and town?

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.

Town


Definition:

  • (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
  • (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
  • (adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
  • (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
  • (adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
  • (adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
  • (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
  • (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (3) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
  • (4) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
  • (5) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
  • (6) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
  • (7) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
  • (8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (9) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
  • (10) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
  • (12) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (13) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
  • (14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
  • (15) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
  • (16) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
  • (17) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (18) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
  • (19) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
  • (20) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.