"selectman" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "select",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "select + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "select + -man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "selectmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "selectwoman"
        },
        {
          "word": "selectperson"
        },
        {
          "word": "selectpeople"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems",
          "text": "Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns."
      ],
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          "board",
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        [
          "municipal",
          "municipal"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ],
        [
          "elected",
          "elected"
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          "manage",
          "manage"
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        [
          "New England",
          "New England"
        ],
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          "town",
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        "(US) Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns."
      ],
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        "US"
      ]
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  ],
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}

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    {
      "word": "selectwoman"
    },
    {
      "word": "selectperson"
    },
    {
      "word": "selectpeople"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "select + -man",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "selectmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "selectman (plural selectmen)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        "(US) Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns."
      ],
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}